Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Stettinius is to find raw materials, Mr. Budd to deliver them, Mr. Knudsen to process them. To these three the President added Sidney Hillman, pink-cheeked, blond, curly-haired, 53, chief of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, vice president of C. I.O., a "labor statesman," no bumbler, coldly intellectual. Mr. Hillman will coordinate employment, supervise apprentice training...
France fired 15 Generals last week. Congress' only cure for unpreparedness last week was money. President Roosevelt had asked for $1,182,000,000 in emergency cash and authorizations (plus previously pending estimates). The Senate in its responsive enthusiasm added $364,221,468, in the process grabbed off surprisingly little pork ($2,311,000 for the archaic, scattered string of forts which Congress forces the Army to maintain). Main items...
Crucially dependent on chemistry is quantity production of high explosives. When World War I broke out, Britain's standard propellant for shells was cordite, a nitroglycerin-nitrocellulose compound whose manufacture requires acetone. Best-known way of making acetone was to distill wood-a costly, low-yield process. When British cordite production hopped up to 4,000,000 lb. a week, all the wood in the world began to look meagre and the War Office was desperate. Acetone was skimped in making cordite, with the result that, in a naval engagement off South Africa, British shells glumphed dismally into...
...gross exaggeration of the amount of thought-process behind Mickey's statement to treat it thus logically. For when he entered the clinic, his counsellorial dignity suffered the unspeakable insult of being "greeted in the sharp tones similar to those given by an army officer." The effect on such a sensitive and fine-grained temperament as Mickey's must have been cataclysmic, to judge by the tirade it produced against Harvard's subversive influence and against "German refugees giving military orders in a hospital." It was chivalrous of Mickey to try to protect Cambridge Hospital from Fifth-column assault. Nevertheless...
Printed by the modern photo-offset process, the ILLUSTRATED will feature articles on various undergraduate activities and a summary of the news. Suggestions and criticism will be welcomed by the editors of the Crimson...