Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence for the Dean of the Business School is being built at the southeast corner of the Business School grounds, in accordance with the wishes of George F. Baker, donor of the new buildings...
...Fifth Estate, that world company of scientists, climbed the Allegheny Mountains to Pittsburgh last week. They knew soft coal, what it was and what could profitably be done with it and were answering the call to the Second International Conference on Bituminous Coal made by President Thomas Stockham. Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology...
...coal profits-President Baker emphasized when he opened last week's conference-is to teach consumers how to use coal in new ways and to teach coal men how to "unlock the riches that lie hidden" in coal (i.e., to produce synthetic goods...
...Synthetics. When Carnegie Tech's President Baker asked Director Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service to speak at this bituminous coal conference, he did not expect Dr. Slosson "to make any serious contribution to the practical and technical problems" which engaged the attention of the Congress. So Dr. Slosson, learned journalist, made a brilliant survey of synthetic chemistry, in which soft coal is the great raw material...
Most memorable, two thousand business and scientific specialists in fuel were filtering into Pittsburgh for the Second International Conference on Bituminous Coal, called there this week by President Thomas S. Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology. The coal business, particularly the bituminous part, has long had trouble making money. Despite great reserves of mined coal, competition from gas, oil and waterpower have kept prices low. The producers have become aggressively intent on selling coal derivatives-pulverized coal, tar, fuel oil, gasoline, gas, dyes, perfumes, drugs, alcohol, etc., etc. How to get those products, scientists already know much; how to utilize...