Production of Atmospheric Nitrogen: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3390, a Bill to Provide Further for the National Defense; to Establish a Self-sustaining Federal Agency for the Manufacture, Production, and Development of the Products of Atmospheric Nitrogen for Military, Experimental, and Other Purposes; to Provide Research Laboratories and Experimental Plants for the Development of Fixed-nitrogen Production; and for Other Purposes, [March 22, April 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 20, 21, 27, 28, 1920]. |
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... complete this plant , because the plant is complete . So that the third course which I am going to suggest and the course which I recommend , and upon which this bill is based , seems to be the only practicable one , and that is to ...
... complete this plant , because the plant is complete . So that the third course which I am going to suggest and the course which I recommend , and upon which this bill is based , seems to be the only practicable one , and that is to ...
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... this to go out in the record as recom- mending pure cyanamid as a complete fertilizer , because I do not believe it would pan out . Senator SMITH of South Carolina . Would it not be 12 PRODUCTION OF ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN .
... this to go out in the record as recom- mending pure cyanamid as a complete fertilizer , because I do not believe it would pan out . Senator SMITH of South Carolina . Would it not be 12 PRODUCTION OF ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN .
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... complete sympathy . We have figured in the War Department that the necessary safety reserve of Chilean nitrate for us to keep on hand against an emergency is 300,000 tons , and we have sold the Government's surplus stocks of nitrate ...
... complete sympathy . We have figured in the War Department that the necessary safety reserve of Chilean nitrate for us to keep on hand against an emergency is 300,000 tons , and we have sold the Government's surplus stocks of nitrate ...
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... complete a record you desire to make . It is hardly fair to ask judges how they are going to decide the case . But I want to have no defect in this record , and yet I do not want the committee to hear an elaborate exposition of ...
... complete a record you desire to make . It is hardly fair to ask judges how they are going to decide the case . But I want to have no defect in this record , and yet I do not want the committee to hear an elaborate exposition of ...
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... complete success , although it was operated sufficiently to prove that nitrogen can be fixed by this method . The cost , however , of fixing nitrogen by this process seems to be prohibitive . Control of the plant was returned to the ...
... complete success , although it was operated sufficiently to prove that nitrogen can be fixed by this method . The cost , however , of fixing nitrogen by this process seems to be prohibitive . Control of the plant was returned to the ...
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agriculture Air Nitrates Corporation American Cyanamid American Cyanamid Co ammonium nitrate ammonium sulphate amount arc process BOWER by-product coke ovens by-product ovens capacity cent CHAIRMAN chemical Chile Chilean nitrate coal commercial committee construction consumption contract cost cottonseed meal cyanamid process electric estimate expense explosives farmer figures fixation fixed nitrogen furnace GAILLARD Germany going Government Haber process horsepower increase interest JOYES labor LANDIS manufacture material ment mixed fertilizers Muscle Shoals plant nitrate of soda nitrate plant nitric acid nitrogen compounds nitrogen fixation operation Ordnance Department patents phosphate phosphoric acid potash pounds present production profit purposes quantity question royalty SCOTT Secretary BAKER Senator KENDRICK Senator MCNARY Senator NORRIS Senator RANSDELL Senator SMITH Senator WADSWORTH SMITH of South sodium nitrate South Carolina statement sulphate of ammonia supply thing tion to-day tons of nitrogen United WASHBURN water power
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