Word: processor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrounded himself with scientists, and Catini's white-coated Giacomo Fauser developed the world-famous nitrogen fixation process that made it a leader in producing nitrates and fertilizers. When bills for fertilizer bags got too high Donegani imported jute from India, made Catini Italy's biggest jute processor; when power shortages hampered production, he built his own dams and power stations. With tycoon-fitting foresight. Engineer Donegani made Catini the largest producer of power for private use in all of Europe...
Should the U.S. sell butter to Russia? The question was touched off by Soybean Processor Dwayne Andreas of Mankato, Minn., when he asked the U.S. Commerce Department last week for permission to sell Russia 40 million lbs. of surplus butter and 14 million lbs. of surplus cottonseed oil (used to make margarine). The result was a searching re-examination by the President's Cabinet of U.S. policy on East-West trade...
...Lamont the structural entity that weighs on many. Too much like a huge machine, with the soft breathing of its air conditioning, the almost imperceptible but constant humming of its lights, its often subterranean atmosphere, the building seems to some students a monstrous trap or an educational processor--the Frankenstein's monster of a mechanistic age. In spite of all the glass, these dissenters feel sealed into the building. Even a member of the staff said it: "If only we could open a window...
...long after their arrival in California, his parents were divorced. When his mother remarried unhappily, Darryl began spending his summers back in Nebraska with her father, Henry Torpin, a well-to-do grain processor and landowner who could spin eyewitness tall tales about an Indian massacre. In letters to his grandfather, the scrawny boy soon outdid the old man's stories with lurid imaginings of what might be seen from his train window...