Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week Benito Mussolini was a thoroughly disillusioned warrior. The first step in the process of his disappointment was the frenzied joy with which Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him. On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce...
...been by far the biggest, museum recipient of WPA funds-$1,335,000 to date, with more in immediate prospect. In order to get WPA grants, the museum listed its paintings, sculpture, furniture as "materials," thus easily matched the Government allotment dollar for dollar. Once Director Kimball explained this process to President Nelson A. Rockefeller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said Mr. Rockefeller: "I see, you borrowed the money, then got the Government to double it, and then got people to give it to you." This quip rouses a loud and happy laugh from ample-chested Fiske...
...bill appropriating money for the U. S. farmers could be passed viva voce in the Senate the minute it is introduced, but the Senate would never consider doing it that way. The "orderly process" is to study a House-passed bill, such as this year's $714,000,000 farm measure, find places to drape on added gifts, then pass it, with every Senator given his chance to roar devotion to U. S. agriculture...
...German people love to eat heartily. Since they cannot in wartime eat heartily, Hermann does it for them, consuming cream puffs by the dozen, wolfing huge helpings of everything, dirtying his sleeves and vest in the process. He plays Falstaff both because it is good politics and because he likes the role. "Look at me!" he roars, slapping his enormous stomach. "I have lost pounds in the service of the country. Why do you complain at cutting down your meals a little?" It makes no difference to unser Hermann or his people that the 40 pounds he lost last year...
Diffident Engineer Norcross told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers last February how he made the Cuban ore commercially workable by devising a special flotation process (grinding the ore, floating off impurities in a soap-and-oil solution, baking what is left...