Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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American Tobacco says it has a new process: subjecting tobacco to a violet ray treatment. Whether other companies will find such a process necessary in order to keep their tobacco of equal standard is not yet disclosed. American Tobacco's new advertising will be signed testimonials from the greatest tycoons. They will not endorse Luckies, but will praise the business acumen and scientific leadership which led American Tobacco to its great violet ray discovery. In each testimonial the inference will be clear that the endorser's own business possesses qualities comparable to American Tobacco...
Atlantic Coast Fisheries, Inc., made Harden Franklin Taylor its president. Long a vice president, Mr. Taylor invented the Taylor Process for quick-freezing, concentrated production on "Nordic Fillet of Haddock," responsible for Atlantic's recent success (FORTUNE...
...shiny briquets, while coal dealers and the Press watched and listened to the high hopes of the promoters: Clarence S. Lomax, inventor; Charles Edison Poyer, grandnephew of Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Hitchcock Jr., international polo captain. The infant company asserts it has found the long-sought low-temperature distillation process for converting bituminous into a smokeless, slow-burning fuel which will undersell retail anthracite. If the process really works commercially, it may prove to be the tonic so badly needed by the bituminous mines of the Midwest...
...soft-coal-into-hard-coal idea is an old one, its history strewn with failures. Hundreds of schemes of low-temperature carbonization have been exhaustively investigated. Chief of these was the German KSG process, which was exploited by International Combustion Engineering Corp., now in the hands of receivers. The Prestcoke method, fruit of eight years experiment, has unique features: briquets that do not crumble; a product free from clinkers with only one-half anthracite's ash, one-quarter its moisture; a high yield of gas and tar. Gas is salable, tar less so. Former projects have suffered through inability...
Frenchmen who have played a part in perfecting the picture-sending process are Inventors Belin, Holweck and Deauvillier In France, there is some broadcasting...