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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... question of the justification which the Government had for making these expendi- tures , but it is interested in the question of the future of the plants . Three possible courses are open to the Government : One is to scrap and salvage ...
... question of the justification which the Government had for making these expendi- tures , but it is interested in the question of the future of the plants . Three possible courses are open to the Government : One is to scrap and salvage ...
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... question as to whether the Government ought itself to operate this plant or whether it ought to sell it to private individuals and let private enterprise operate it . After studying the question very carefully we came to the con ...
... question as to whether the Government ought itself to operate this plant or whether it ought to sell it to private individuals and let private enterprise operate it . After studying the question very carefully we came to the con ...
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... question . I have the figures before me . We have figured that cyanamid which can be sold - we have only calculated on using one of the units producing a very small quantity , a very small number of tons - 73,000 tons of it - that is ...
... question . I have the figures before me . We have figured that cyanamid which can be sold - we have only calculated on using one of the units producing a very small quantity , a very small number of tons - 73,000 tons of it - that is ...
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... question is that the farmers generally , where a " bal- anced fertilizer , " as they call it , is used , potash , phosphoric acid and nitrogen - buy it in as concentrated a form as they can and mix it themselves . They find they save ...
... question is that the farmers generally , where a " bal- anced fertilizer , " as they call it , is used , potash , phosphoric acid and nitrogen - buy it in as concentrated a form as they can and mix it themselves . They find they save ...
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... question for the reason that it has impressed me if we could be reasonably safe we could perpetually operate the plant in the face of competition that it would undoubtedly be a very great thing for the Nation to carry out this project ...
... question for the reason that it has impressed me if we could be reasonably safe we could perpetually operate the plant in the face of competition that it would undoubtedly be a very great thing for the Nation to carry out this project ...
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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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