Word: coke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition unsettled the coal trade. Last week five coal companies, said to have been unable to agree on merger terms, formed a marketing agreement that will create a centralized agency, eliminate competition among them. The five are Henderson Coal, Continental Coal, Chartiers' Creek Coal, Duquesne Coal and Coke, Superior Mining. Their annual tonnage amounts to over 7,500,000, third only to Pittsburgh Coal and Consolidation Coal, each with about 13,000,000 tons...
Elected. Samuel Insull, Chicago public utilitarian; to be board chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. Onetime president of both companies, he was succeeded in the former by Edward J. Doyle, in the latter by George F. Mitchell...
William C. ("Coke") Mason was a one-time factory hand from Ohio, whom his boyhood pal George Regan coached, bullied, kidded into a middleweight boxer of championship calibre. Soon after Coke left the factory, his wife, a small-time gold digger with big-time aspirations, left him flat. Coke brooded over her defection, but Regan thought it was a good thing. Coke's wicked left hook, his ability to take punishment, began to win him a more than local reputation. No ring-general, Coke took his orders for each fight from Regan. When he knocked out Prince Pearl, shifty...
Champion at last, Coke yearned for his wife. He wrote her a letter; Regan intercepted it. Finally, Coke's fame spreading and her pocketbook thinning, she found him. Coke was delighted, Regan disgusted. Soon Rose began to lead Coke a dance. She dragged him to night clubs, introduced him to flashy theatrical people, badgered him until he let her go on the stage again. Very soon she was unfaithful to him. simple-minded Coke suspecting nothing. Regan saw what was going on, tried to warn Coke; they drifted apart. Once when Regan was drunk he spoke out; Coke knocked...
...When Coke trained for his fight with O'Keefe, everything seemed to go wrong: he was overweight, his camp was so badly managed he had to run it himself, his legs felt dead. Just before the fight Regan, again drunk, went to Coke's dressing room and told him who his wife's lover was. Coke went out to meet defeat with nothing but despair in his heart. For eight rounds he went hammer & tongs, batted O'Keefe all around the ring, couldn't knock him out. In the ninth round he knew...