Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Blunder." Last year irrepressible Uncle Dickie privately published a book on his family tree claiming that until the Queen went through the formal process of adopting the name of Windsor in April of 1952, she had reigned two months as a Mountbatten, and therefore the House of Mountbatten historically "takes its place among the reigning houses of the United Kingdom." Last week, when Her Majesty announced her "will and pleasure," the press could not shake off the unpleasant conviction that Uncle Dickie was behind it all. "A victory for Prince Philip and his uncle!" growled the Daily Herald...
...nearly 5% yearly (from 1,700,000 in 1950 to 2,500,000 now), a colorful spectrum of new industry has set up shop: last year alone 32 factories moved into metropolitan Toronto. Says William Nickle, Ontario's Minister of Planning and Development: "It's an ongoing process-as there is more population there is more industry, and as there is more industry there is more population...
...manufacturing corporations. Heller not only pumps in vital funds where banks shun the risk, but freely dispenses the advice and guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make them so Dig and fat that they no longer need him. In the process, his own company has grown big and fat: this week it announced record earnings of $2.74 a share, the twelfth consecutive yearly record...
Corp. of New York demonstrated a process that can put the fresh flavor back into foods before they come to the table...
...elevation. It sucks air down from above, and with the air come oxygen atoms that were brought to the pole by the circulation of the high atmosphere. The air is compressed by sinking down, the atoms get closer together, and many of them manage to combine into molecules. The process gives off heat, which Dr. Kellogg thinks is responsible for the winter warmth of the high polar atmosphere...