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...practical the extraction, on a large scale, of nitrogen from the air. Thus began the commercial production of synthetic nitrogen. After the War, another German scientist, Carl Bosch, adapted the process to peacetime uses, and became chief of Europe's largest corporation, the I. G. Farbenindustrie. Now Germany im ports no nitrate from Chile, but exports each year about $50,000,000 worth of synthetic nitrogen. This was a notable triumph for science; it provided a valuable stimulus to the German post-War recovery; but for Chile it was disastrous. Backbone of the Chilean budget is the export...
This afternoon there will be an opportunity for students to hear Camillo von Klenze, professor of American Civilization at the University of Munich, whose topic will be "Geistige Stromungen im heutigen Deutschland." He will speak in the Lecture Room of the Germanic Museum at 4.30 o'clock...
...substantial meaning of which is: Whenever the World Court is asked to opine on any question, then let the U. S. State Department be previously informed; let every effort be made to frame the question in a form acceptable to the U. S. State Department; and if this prove im- possible then let there be no hard feelings when the U. S. "naturally" withdraws from adherence to the Court...
...purchase stock in Stone & Webster, Inc., potent builders and operators of U. S. public utilities. To the public went an offering of 400,000 shares of Stone & Webster, Inc., newly organized as a Delaware corporation. To present large stockholders went 175.000 additional shares. Priced at $100, the new stock im mediately sold "when, as and if" above $107. The new financing will create a 100-million-dollar corporation. Control will remain with the founders, Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster...
...noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice in the crowd chirped: "'Oo wants to see 'IM?'' After ten minutes the Queen spoke decisively to the King and royalty withdrew from sight...