Word: coke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Piron system of low-temperature coal distillation, which Henry Ford is investigating at cost of $20,000,000, is a method of making a coke from bituminous coal which has all the advantages of anthracite and can be used in blast furnaces...
...post-war freight movement. The second record is for the successive number of weeks when loadings exceeded 1,000,000 cars; the week ending June 30 is the fourth successive million-car week. During October, 1920, three million-car weeks occurred. Increased loadings were reported in every commodity except coke and ore. Merchandise and manufactured products totaled 593,422 cars, an increase of 12,178 cars over the week preceding...
Previously, the distillation of coal has been undertaken mainly to produce illuminating gas and the residue of coke, and has been conducted at high temperatures. The new process, by conducting the distillation of the coal at low temperature, sacrifices about half of the maximum obtainable illuminating gas, as well as ammonium sulphate. On the other hand, the illuminating gas resulting from the new process is of a better quality, and five times the amount of motor fuel oil is obtained, in addition to benzine, pitch, creosote and innumerable coal tar products...
...building materials at 180. Provisions fell from 141 to 137, fruits from 154 to 152, textiles from 170 to 167, metals from 121 to 116, naval stores from 328 to 262 and miscellaneous from 200 to 195, while breadstuffs advanced from 127 to 128, coal and coke from 210 to 219 and chemicals from...
...meantime Franco-Belgian policy in the Ruhr has become intensified. General Degoutte issued an order confiscating supplies of coke throughout the occupied area, and at the same time made it known that further resistance would be treated as a criminal offense...