Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...civilian who works for the War Department). After nearly five years, the Army last week was still using mostly Springfield rifles, and thinking about Garands. Official excuse for this situation: that the Garand has not yet been supplied to the Army because it is still going through a normal process of trial, error, correction. Some critics think there is another reason: mis judgment, followed by scandalous reluctance to admit and repair a mistake. This week a serious charge against the Garand is being made public...
Died. Carl Bosch, 65, head of the German dye trust, chemical wizard (Nobel Prize: 1931); in Heidelberg. He developed the process of making synthetic nitrates (for fertilizers and explosives) which made it possible for Germany to fight through four years of World...
Although many researchers are seeking a universal chemical test to show up the presence of early cancer, "there is no rational basis for the hope that any such test will ever be found. The early cancer process is local . . . and there is certainly no evidence to show that it excites any specific reaction in the body or disseminates any peculiar substances into the blood...
...this as it may, the fact remains that Victor controls the German patents to the film process of recording, a means of recording on film and reproducing via light waves and photo-electric cells--something like a movie sound track. This may be wild day-dreaming, but isn't it possible that Victor is starting this line to demolish competition in the field, and realizing that it will probably injure its own Red Seal irreparably as well, doesn't particularly care, because it intends to switch in a few years to the film process anyway, which completely eliminates needle-scratch...
...Label record--unless that new medium would provide a market for itself and later developments which would make it profitable. Black Label and Red Seal don't seem compatible. Black Label can exist only at over doubled volume--which Victor can't handle with its present facilities. The film process can be adapted to handle itself and the old method--consequently where the woodpile and who's going...