Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...accomplishments of Academician Claude to date include invention of neon lights to illuminate advertising boards and air fields; a process for capturing gases from coke ovens which are converted into hydrogen, nitrogen compounds, innumerable drugs; a method for liquefying air which is used by the $25,000,000 Air Reduction Company; a method of dissolving acetylene in acetone, a process which yields $20,000,000 in annual sales...
...Henri and a great Standard company, though it was Standard of New Jersey, not Standard of New York, with whom Sir Henri treated. Closely following the announcement that Standard of New Jersey and I. G. Farbenindustrie, great German chemical "trust," were about to get their new oil-hydrogenation process into commercial production, came the announcement that Royal Dutch had joined the patent pool controlling the new process. The process itself (which depends upon combining hydrogen with crude oil in such a manner that from 100 gallons of crude plus hydrogen may be produced 100 gallons of gasoline) has the potentiality...
However much these three views illustrate typical attitudes on the Indian situation they all come very far from an intelligent appreciation of the affairs which Sir John Simon and his associates spent two years in studying. Since the World War the British Empire has gone under a considerable process of rebuilding and emerged as something entirely new in the history of colonial development, the British Commonwealth of Nations. As such it is a virtual collection of Independent states held together by trade interests, a common heritage, and the royal family...
Factors such as these exert a constant influence whether assisted by conscious governmental action or not. If prohibition has made any permanent contribution to the cause of temperance it has been in the indirect encouragement it lends this process through making liquor less accessible. But this end is also achieved by the English system of restricted licensing. When the situation is thus reduced to its fundamentals, it is hard to see that our "noble experiment" could not advantageously be replaced by one which would retain the nobility of purpose without the accompanying disruption of the whole life of the nation...
Commenting on this aspect of the situation, Dean Hanford wrote the following: "Although the process of transition has been made somewhat more gradual and effective by the developments just described, it would be folly to assume that all of the difficulties have been solved or that readjustments of machinery and methods are alone sufficient. It is necessary that the schools and colleges give further thought to the subject. On' the point of the college it is necessary that the quality of instruction of beginning classes be still further improved by the use of a large number of experienced teachers...