Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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While the Committee was in process of reorganization, the problem of ways and means was fortunately solved by a generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation of the sum of $150,000, payable in instalments not exceeding $30,000 per annum over a period of five years. The terms of the grant provide for just such research as the Department of Economics visualized when it brought its needs to the attention of the President of the University in 1914. For the first time in its history, the Department can turn to economic research without the feeling that it is expected...
...order to avoid the coated, glossy papers which disturb the eyes but which are well adapted to half-tone reproduction, FORTUNE'S photographs are reproduced by the "Intaglio" process-the reverse of ordinary half-tone printing-which works well with heavy, glossless papers. The type used is a reproduction by the English Monotype Co. of the letters designed by the 18th Century craftsman Baskerville. His delicate feat was to modernize and clarify the types which then existed. FORTUNE'S letter has none of the condensation and "meanness" of later type faces...
...give scope to its illustrations and text without crowding and to permit of the handsome margins characteristic of good bookmaking. About 14 x 11 inches, its dimensions are approximately the same as those of the Saturday Evening Post. FORTUNE'S covers, in place of the usual "process" reproductions in halftone, will be made for flat-color printing, will have the character of original prints...
Technicolor is the trade name of a process invented by Dr. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, onetime (1913-15) professor of electro-chemistry and metallurgy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now president of a $35,000,000 corporation. Dr. Kalmus built his first camera ten years ago. It took 15 months to build and cost $120,000. Technicolor cameras are cheaper now, but there are not many of them available ; a year ago there were only eight in the world. Technicolor, Inc. owns exclusive rights to its process - not the best process yet discovered for taking pictures in color, but the only...
...this method, says Dr. Holt, "we can guarantee the father to turn out a boy (and in a process that is altogether delightful to him) who will come within 95 per cent of what that particular boy's intellect is capable of achieving...