Word: coke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Albert Merritt Billings (Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., New York City's elevated railways, Memphis street railways. Missouri Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) was his uncle. Cousin is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon. Another cousin was Dr. John Shaw Billings (1838-1913). soldier builder of libraries...
Bankers for the big Insull operating properties rubbed their hands in satisfaction last week. The $65,000,000 load of short-term debt left by Samuel Insull had been lifted from the necks of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas, Light & Coke, Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Commonwealth and Peoples long-term issues had been gobbled up by investors (TIME, Aug. 15); Commonwealth 5½'s had been quickly bid up 5 points above their issue price. A $20,000,000 Public Service issue was marketed early this week. With independent accountants the bankers had been over the books...
Heartened by the public appetite for Commonwealth Edison bonds, bankers promptly put a $20,000,000 issue of Peoples Gas Light & Coke on the market, laid plans for a Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois issue in the near future...
...bridge, across Sydney harbor. Three months ago "Sydney's Dream" was opened with official pomp, unofficial commotion (TIME, March 28). Last week it gave promise of becoming Sydney's nightmare. Large cracks appeared in the roadway, running both transversely and longitudinally. The bridge is paved with a coke compound. The compound contains sulphur. Engineers examining the paving, which was laid on a steel deck, found that the sulphur is setting up a chemical reaction which, if unchecked, must cause the steel deck rapidly to corrode...
...crack up (TIME, April 18 et seq.), people thought the bankers would keep the Dean of Utility Operators to help them salvage the wreckage. But last week 73-year-old Samuel Insull resigned from the chairmanship of his three finest operating properties, Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas, Light & Coke Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Said he: "Due regard for my health necessitates my retirement. . . ." He also re-signed as one of the three receivers of Middle West Utilities, subject to court approval. But La Salle & Wall Streets, noting $65,000,000 of maturities in the next few months...