Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Bergius conceived the idea of making motor fuel from coal by hydrogenation under high heat and heavy pressure. Over the following two decades he and other chemists in Germany, Britain and Canada converted the idea into an industrial fact. Finely powdered coal is made into a paste by mixing with tar or a tar derivative, the mixture fed into a heavy steel cylinder. At 840° F, hydrogen gas is brought in under 3,700 Ib. per sq. in. pressure. The hydrogen combines with the carbon or carbon compounds in the coal...
Then light-molecule hydrocarbons like gasoline can be distilled off, as in the some-what similar process of "cracking" petro- leum. Germany produced about 300,000 tons of motor fuel by coal-hydrogenation last year; 500.000 tons is a likely figure for this year. Last year England's Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. completed a hydrogenation plant of 150,000 tons annual capacity. In the U. S., which produces oceans of oil, the commercial process has not got under...
Receipts for fiscal 1937, the President reported last week, would be an estimated $5,665,839,000-$12,000,000 over his previous estimate-in spite of a $668,000,000 loss of AAA and Bituminous Coal Conservation Act taxes and a deferment of certain Social Security Act collections. These losses would be more than offset by $410,000,000 in additional funds from the Revenue Act of 1936; $33,000,000 in delayed collections on the Railroad Retirement Act; and a jump of $237,000,000 in general revenues because of better business...
...also benefited from the radio boom. Though cautious handlers kept Clark Gable's female box-office counterpart, little Shirley Temple, off the air, 13-year-old Jackie Cooper (Skippy) last week landed a $10,000 contract, had to have it approved by a court. For Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. young Actor Cooper will next month make a series of recorded programs with such of his older Hollywood colleagues as Fred & Paula Stone, Polly Moran, Patsy Kelly, Dolores Costello Barrymore, Hoot Gibson, Jack Holt, Elissa Landi. For working in Jackie's program, Cinemactress Anne Shirley has already been...
Meanwhile the siege of Oviedo, which bloodthirsty Asturian coal miners had been trying to take ever since the Revolution began, proceeded last week with famed Colonel Miguel Aranda desperately at bay. It was he who under Government orders two years ago suppressed the Asturian miners' own attempt at a Marxian uprising, and they were out to get Colonel Aranda even though in so doing they imperiled the lives of their own families in the city he was defending. With the siege at its hottest, the Colonel abandoned the usual tactic of trying to defend a central stronghold, distributed...