Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican Government pursues its so-called "Revolution" on a formula of feeling out how much it can get away with. Last week it turned from its efforts to find out just how serious Mexican Catholics are about their religion and lit on the internationally-owned Mexican Eagle Oil Co., a $35,000,000 affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell. For the past three years a Mexican company called Commercial Petroleum, whose chief asset is its story that it has the rights to a valuable Eagle oil field, has been suing Eagle with great success in the Mexican courts. Appealing last month...
...authority of the Almighty Father, of the Son, of the Holy Ghost, by the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and all the Saints," goes the formula of the excommunication, "forced by the pressure of his contumacy, we excommunicate him with these words, and we proclaim him to be avoided until he shall have fulfilled that which is ordered so his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment." Last week Archbishop Diaz brandished this monstrous threat at Mexican traitors to the Church. He declared liable to excommunication...
Like many another explosive, nitramon contains ammonium nitrate. It also contains a stable carbon compound (formula secret) which only reluctantly releases its carbon to combine with the nitrate's oxygen. Once detonated, however, nitramon explodes with 40% more force than TNT. It costs less than some grades of dynamite. The company claims that it is impervious to cold, works under water, should make quarry blasting and coal vein stripping completely safe up to the moment of "shooting." Politically timely was the assurance that nitramon's value is strictly limited to peacetime...
This simple formula for peace on the Potomac was devised by no long-headed powerman but an Army engineer serving as assistant to the District of Columbia's Engineering Commissioner. Head of his class (1911) at West Point, Major William E. R. Covell based his plan on somewhat similar experiments in sliding-scale returns made as far back as 1876 by Britain's London Gas Light & Coke...
...price Mr. Hill will have to pay under the provisions of the lease is the value of a $2,500,000 annuity on a 7% basis for 88 years. Calculated by that involved mathematical formula, the price is about...