Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...foundation is Professor Harry Steenbock's patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food manufacturers now use his process, and pay - because he refused to let business hamper his research work-royalties to the research foundation...
...soon. Savior of the situation at this critical time was the great scientist Fritz Haber, who made 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...
...been extremely stiff; the first and second boats have been going over long stretches at a high stroke, and racing in time trials over two-mile distances. Coach Whiteside is evidently whipping his boats into shape for this week's races, and sparing no pains in the process...
However inane they may be, the youthful scrawls of a famed artist can usually be sold for big prices. Sincere artists usually object to this mercenary process. Recently Pablo Picasso was astonished to observe on the walls of Paris dealers some 400 of his works, most of which had been executed before the age of puberty. Excited dilettantes were lauding even the most execrable of the daubs. Revolted, Artist Picasso charged last week that the material had been obtained from his mother in Barcelona under false pretenses, filed a complaint charging fraud against persons unnamed, caused the Galeries Georges Bernheim...
Nervous Breakdown. Why was St. Gandhi in effect kidnaped by due process of law? The crushing mental and moral stresses set up by his movement had caused the nervous breakdown, earlier in the week, of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton, chief commissioner of the North West Frontier Prince. In a state of emotional collapse Sir Horatio sailed for England, beaten by weapons beyond his ken, as St. Gandhi hopes many another and finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official...