Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...representation is now to be apportioned. Unless the law is changed, the 73rd Congress will be divided up on the basis of major fractions-dealing out House seats in round numbers, counting as a unit any remainder more than half, chopping all remainders of less than half. By this process the average Congressional District after 1932 will have a population of 280,762 as compared with the present quota...
...several years, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and I. G. Farbenindustrie, German chemical "trust," have been developing hydrogenation, a new process for oil refining. Last week, the method made its first commercial appearance with the opening of Standard Oil's new hydrogenation plant, first in the U. S., at Bayway...
...cracking process of today, added to the oldtime straight-run process, made possible a higher gasoline recovery from crude oil, so hydrogenation, supplementing these two methods, is expected to add to the efficiency of oil refining. Unlike the present method of oil refining, hydrogenation is a synthetic process. In the presence of a catalyst, hydrogen is combined with crude oil under heavy pressures, high temperatures. The combined influences of catalyst, pressure and heat cause the hydrogen and the hydrocarbon molecules to split. The hydrogen atoms immediately combine with the hydrocarbons, form the proper light oil arrangement. Hydrogenation makes possible...
Planning no monopoly, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and its German associate have formed a Hydro-Patents Co. through which U. S. oil companies may share the advantages of the new process (TIME, June 16). Sixteen big refiners have already subscribed to stock in the company. Companies which have shown interest in installing the new process represent 80% of the total U. S. refining capacity...
...items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: (a) Ford coupe which had run 5,000 mi. (b) Basic patent which will reduce the cost cf manufacturing shoes 20? a pair. (c) Secret process for manufacturing a drug which will definitely cure cancer. (d) Ten acres of land in a good farming section of Iowa...