Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...formation of gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, is very like the process of cooking old-fashioned rock candy. In candymaking, slender threads are dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...
with a press in which interpretation, analysis and criticism of administrative acts will be subdued by legal process, and whatever an official says will be published with full acceptance. . . ." Although the New Deal might have no calculated intention of regulating the press, it obviously would have liked to swat a press that didn't agree with...
...seven years ended 1939, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. made more stir with its streamlined trains than anyone else in the field. But it lost money in the process. Now Budd is busy making ammunition parts, body assemblies for bombs, other war materials-and money. September-quarter profits were $99,000, up from $402,000 loss last year. Full-year earnings will be the largest since...
...Harry John Bauer, 57, looks like Will Rogers (was once mistaken for him on a train). He believes lower rates mean bigger revenues, has cut his residential rate 2? to 3.76? per kilowatt-hour (national average 3.91?) in the last five years, boosted revenues over 20% in the process...
President Conant believes that "we must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety for educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of educational disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above another...