Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition invariably proves to be a process of absorption. Knowledge is gained unconsciously, and in the end one finds oneself well equipped to enter the business world with a feeling of confidence. There is perhaps no better way in college for one to obtain this same feeling than by entering such a competition as the Business Board offers...
Eventually the princess is restored to her father, but only after she has been rescued by Uncle Stanley, who is emboldened by several gallons of gypsy wine, absorbed inadvertently while he was bottling the liquid by a siphoning process. Incidentally, this bottling scene ranks as possibly the funniest we've yet encountered; and for an effective drug to ease you back to work after the pleasures of vacation, we can recommend nothing better...
...Montreal and creosoting ties for U. S. railroads. Both Eastern Gas and Koppers Gas grew out of a patented coke oven invented by a German named Heinrich Koppers, who improved the method of saving the gas and other coal derivatives formerly blown away in thick smoke. His process caught the eye of Pittsburgh's late Henry Bedinger Rust, who took his ideas for exploiting the Koppers patents to the Mellon family offices...
From the original Koppers process to its present $227,000,000 form, Eastern Gas & Fuel expanded with curious logic. At first the coke plants were constructed for other companies but as soon as Koppers Co. started to build them for itself, it had to find an outlet for the gas. Though most Koppers units sell gas to local utilities, the gas companies serving Boston and its suburbs were bought outright. To use some of the coke it has a blast furnace near Boston. To insure supplies of coal West Virginia mines were acquired. To keep the mines operating efficiently, coal...
President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum, announced last week that his company's earnings this year were running 100% ahead of a year ago. In 1935 Phillips took in $92,000,000-19% more than in 1934. But benefiting from its famed "polymerization" process, which converts into high-grade motor fuels waste gases and refinery products hitherto lost or used in inferior products (TIME, Sept. 2), Phillips made $13,400,000 as against $5,757,000 in the previous year...