Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a thoughtful host, Harry Truman made the White House as comfortable as possible for his guests last week-a cozy 74°. In some Government buildings temperatures, by presidential order, went no higher than 68°. There was plenty of coal for the Executive Mansion; a few federal buildings are heated by oil, and oil was hard to get (see BUSINESS...
...Ruhr coal was coming out of the ground at a postwar record of 254,000 tons daily; aside from food imports, Bizonia had a favorable trade balance during the past year...
...Outboard Motor 21½ 4.38 4.9 Schenley 28⅜ 7.46 3.85 John B. Stetson 13¾ 3.77 3.6 Ward Baking 11¼ 3.03 3.8 Warner Bros. 11¼ 3.02 4.0 West Indies Sugar 23 10.78 2.0 W. Va. Coal & Coke 18 4.88 3.55 W. Va. Pulp & Paper...
...finding it. Said Forrestal: if the nation went to war tomorrow, it would be 2,000,000 barrels a day short of its minimum needs (current crude production: 5.3 million barrels a day). Forrestal wanted the U.S. to create a vast new industry to make petroleum out of coal, natural gas and oil shale...
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which has a synthetic-fuel pilot plant at Baton Rouge, is placing its long-run major bet on gasoline from coal. This week, Standard and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. broke ground at Library, Pa. for their pilot plant to gasify coal. The next step, a fairly simple one, will be to make petroleum from the gas. Said E. V. Murphree, president of the Standard Oil Development Co.: "Enough oil can be made from the nation's known coal reserves, alone, to last the U.S. for 1,000 years...