Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Page, both 79 years of age. Her two Congressmen were Frank L. Greene, 53, who had served in Congress since 1912, and Mr. Dale, 56, whose Congressional service dated from 1915; last Fall Representative Greene was elected to succeed Senator Page. Mr. Dale, of Island Pond, is a Vermont product. In his youth he studied acting under James E. Murdoch and law under his father. He has been prominent in state politics for 25 years. In accordance with Vermont tradition, promotion is in order...
That coal is the compressed and carbonized remains of prehistoric vegetation is known to everyone. Dr. John M. Macfarlane, Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that petroleum is the product of buried beds of organic matter derived from fish. He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish. Extensive zones of fish remains have been found throughout the northern hemisphere in the same rocks with rich bituminous oil deposits. Sometimes oil migrates long distances through porous...
Their plan as presented to the President called for the revival of the United States Grain Corporation to undertake the orderly marketing and production of grain. They asked for lower railroad freight rates on grain and flour and for an extra session of Congress, called at least a fortnight in advance of the regular session (which starts Dec. 3), to pass appropriate legislation. They did not ask a fixed price for wheat or a higher tariff on that product...
...Chemical Engineering Industries, Materials of Construction, Chemistry in Commerce. Classes of students from nearby universities were personally conducted by their professors. The General Electric Co. showed an automatic welding apparatus and an electric steam generator. The Anaconda Copper Co. demonstrated methods of roasting sulphurous copper ore to secure by-product sulphuric acid, with which superphosphate fertilizers are made. Eimer & Amend, instrument manufacturers, displayed a photomicrographic camera, to be attached to an ordinary microscope. The Research Corporation, organized to market new inventions, exhibited an electric precipitator for dried milk and a caterpillar drive adjustable at any time, for getting automobile trucks...
...product from Saxony that travels by land...