Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those ships are waiting for coal as fuel for Italy, OK. If it's for fuel for the ships themselves, they'll rust at the docks. Liberty ships . . . are oil-burners...
Your article on the coal strike states: "In Wilmington, N.C., 15 Liberty ships, loaded with food and fuel for Italy, remained tied up at the docks. No coal." [TIME, April...
...chance that MVA could be set up to do the administering. Murray brought his bill in to the new Congress in February, 1945, but there it was effectively snagged in a web of hostile committees. On the outside, opposition to MVA was sparked by private power companies, the coal industry, and conservative Mid Westerners fearful of what was termed "New Deal socialism," or, as the Midwest Manufacturers Associations Inc. put it, "intrusion by the Federal Government into the affairs of State and local governments...
Steel manufacturers know that sulphur (an undesirable impurity) gets into steel from the coal used as fuel. But there are two types of sulphur in coal: organic and "pyritic" (iron sulphide). Republic Steel Corp. wanted to know whether either type is driven off when the coal is made into coke. There was no handy chemical way to find out, but the Little Co.'s scientists worked out a tracer technique that did the job quickly and easily...
They made a small amount of pyrites containing radioactive sulphur and mixed it with a coke-oven charge of coal. They roasted the coal and measured the radioactivity of the sulphur remaining in the coke. A very low level of radioactivity would indicate that most of the pyritic sulphur had been driven off, taking with it the radioactive tags. A higher level would show that the organic sulphur had been eliminated, leaving behind the pyritic sulphur. Actually, the radioactivity of the sulphur fell between the two extremes, showing that both forms of sulphur stay behind in the coke. The experiment...