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EARLY SALE [6 records]

Record 1 2010-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Cinematography
OBS

a motion picture company founded... by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith. Vitagraph's output was prolific and within years the company had become established as a leader in motion picture production. Its films were the most popular among cinema audiences in the early silent era. Vitagraph continued to prosper until its sale in 1925 to the Warner Brothers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Cinématographie
OBS

société de production américaine fondée en 1898 par John Stuart Blackton, dessinateur humoristique, Albert Smith, homme d'affaires, et Pop Rock, ancien exploitant forain. Blackton se distinguait en tournant les premiers films américains à mise en scène spectaculaire (...) surtout en dirigeant "Scenes of True Life" (...), série de petits films de caractère "réaliste" : suivant de près les innovations de Griffith, ou innovant en même temps que lui. (...) rachetée par les frères Warner.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Internet Pages
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
OBS

Ottawa, Canadian Heritage. "This survey is an excellent source of information about goods and services offered for sale in major East Coast newspapers before 1900 and as early as the 1600's. This database documents the region's material culture, providing data on the probable origin and use of the items. The database contains information on such commodities as machinery, transportation and communications equipment, food and beverages, personal household goods, live animals, and crude and fabricated materials".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de pages Internet
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
OBS

Ottawa : Patrimoine canadien. «Cette base de données est une excellente source d'information sur les biens et services offerts en vente dans les principaux journaux des Maritimes depuis le XVIIe siècle jusqu'à 1900. Elle permet de connaître l'origine et l'utilisation probables d'objets et constitue donc une source d'information sur la culture matérielle de la région. Son contenu porte sur des marchandises comme la machinerie, le matériel de transport et de communication, les aliments et boissons, les autres biens de consommation, les animaux vivants de même que les matières brutes et travaillées».

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Pig Raising
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The main purpose for investigating postmortem metabolism of muscle is to help explain and control things such as PSE that have a practical, commercial importance in the meat trade. Watery pork that appears unusually pale and which has a high fluid loss when cut and presented for sale has been around for a long time, with the first scientific reports dating back to the early 1900s. In the scientific literature the condition is most commonly called PSE, standing for pale, soft, and exudative pork... PSE pork that was avoided in the fresh state by a customer because of its unattractive appearance is just as likely to be rejected by a meat processor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Élevage des porcs
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Source(s) : Agriculture, mai 1995.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
OBS

Vente de biens achetés la journée même de sorte que ni l'achat ni la vente ne sont consignés comme une transaction effectuée. Stratégie utilisée à des fins d'évasion fiscale.

Key term(s)
  • vente hâtive

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
DEF

Sale of portions of individual loans in transactions negotiated directly with the end investors(typically banks). The World Bank conducted these operations from the early 1950s through 1979 and again from 1985 through 1988. They have now been discontinued.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Préstamos
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Record 6 1992-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Synthetic Fabrics
  • Plastic Materials
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
DEF

Nylon made by condensation of hexamethylene diamine with adipic acid.

CONT

Polyamide is the technical name given to :... Nylon 6, 6; poly(hexamethyleneadipamide) ;-NH(CH2) 6NHCO(CH2) 8CO-.... Nylon 6, 6. In 1928, W. H. Carothers at Du Pont began systematic studies on condensation polymers, including nylon-type polyamides. In 1935, he first made nylon 6, 6 by polycondensation of hexamethylene diamine with adipic acid.... Nylon 6, 6, the first polyamide to appear on the market... The first product sold was a brush bristle. Ladies’ stockings followed one year later. Nylon 6, 6 molding powder was first offered for sale in the United States in 1941. Early applications were textile machinery gears and electrical coil forms.

CONT

Nylon 66 is a condensation product of adipic acid and hexamethylenediamine developed by Carothers in 1935. Adipic acid is obtained by catalytic oxidation of cyclohexane.

OBS

The term "nylon", though a trademark, is currently used as a common noun. It is a generic name for a family of polyamide polymers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Textiles artificiels et synthétiques
  • Matières plastiques
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
DEF

Nylon fait par condensation de l'hexaméthylènediamine avec l'acide adipique.

OBS

Le mot "Nylon", quoique étant une marque commerciale, est devenu, par abus de langage, un nom commun désignant les polyamides en général.

Spanish

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