Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics of the three-year program are numerous and vociferous. What will happen to the maturing process, they ask, if students are shuffled through college at such a rate? The nation has enough specialists and experts. Many feel it Harvard's function to produce leaders and inspire sound judment...
After six months of chaos spent trying to elect a President, Haiti had found a leader with obvious popular support. The process of selection was rude: when the campaigning reached the shooting stage, other candidates backed out and pushed Fignole into office. He took hold vigorously, appointed a strong Cabinet, named a new army chief, produced pay for troops and other government employees who had gone wageless for a month. Banks, factories, docks, cable offices, radio stations reopened; peasant women hurried to the capital toting baskets of fruit and vegetables...
...Fleet Street's most astute observer, even went so far as to say: "This is not a crisis of one industry. What is involved is the whole position of the press as a social force in Britain: a major threat to principles that are as vital to the process of democracy as is the freedom of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and the right of association...
...meet the rapidly expanding demand for borax. U.S. Borax & Chemical Corp., the world's largest borax producer, last week began operating a huge new plant perched on the edge of the crater at Boron, Calif. It will process ore straight from the open-mine pit, thus cut transportation costs, eventually replace facilities elsewhere. U.S. Borax intends to boost production 30% through its $20 million expansion program at Boron, knows now that it will have no trouble selling all it can turn...
...oldtimers Pacific Coast Borax Co. and U.S. Potash Co. But it has close to a natural monopoly, holds 63% of the free world's deposits, including the only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of the mineral to mine and process. The company's ancestry is the story of borax mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made the U.S. the world's leading borax producer. Among the most successful of the earlier prospectors...