Word: by-product
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Their other basic raw material is coke. With all by-product coke ovens working at capacity, many an oldfashioned, high-cost, beehive oven (once homes for the unemployed) was fired last week. Meanwhile the demand for coking coal outran the capacity of the steelmakers' "captive" mines, sent them into the commercial market. Result: the ailing soft-coal industry is headed toward 10,000,000 tons a week (its 1939 average: 7,800,000 tons a week), and many a factory manager began to think it might be a good idea to stack some extra coal in the yard just...
...price for stars on the Lux program runs to $5,000 a performance. One hundred and ninety-seven famous performers have appeared in the show to date. Valuable by-product of their visits is a sound-effects drum which all of them have signed. Estimated worth of the drum today is $9,000, and the sound-effects man hates to hit it for fear of ruining autographs. Marlene Dietrich has been almost obliterated from the effects of hurricanes and earthquakes...
...reduced U. S. crude and refined petroleum exports by some 20%. Still more potent was a prolonged U. S. winter which had unexpectedly boomed the demand for fuel oil by 28% over the year before. Result: running crude through the stills to get oil for heating, refiners as a by-product ran up millions of gallons of gasoline...
Another standard of taste evident in the modern concert program is a love for music with pictorial effects and instrumental coloring, music with a story in it. This preference, a by-product of the modern fetish of realism, is responsible for the continued popularity of tone-poems and ballet-music. A lusty theme for the hero, a gentle little melody for his lady-love, a spinning theme and perhaps a brook motif: these seem irresistible to American audiences...
...important reason: demand for fuel oil, normally a by-product of gasoline, continued to rise. Now gasoline has become virtually a by-product of fuel oil because refiners are compelled to make more & more unwanted gasoline in order to fill their fuel oil orders. To help move surplus gasoline, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. cut Mobilgas from...