Word: coke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, plunging home through the tossing seas, the Schodack's watch spotted a flaring distress signal. As quickly as she could make it, the Schodack was at the side of the 8,181-ton Norwegian freighter Smaragd, foundering in the tumbled, ocean with a sodden cargo of coke, a crew of 18 and the captain's wife and daughter aboard. First boat the Schodack put overside was lost...
...coal country which gives the background to her novel, Author Turnbull saw some of the first coal mines opened in that section. Like many another child of Scotch-Irish farmers in the beautiful rolling hills of Westmoreland County, thrilled by the romance of Carnegie and Frick, she saw the coke ovens like a pillar of fire by night, the mine tippets a new wonder...
...voting strength of American Light & Traction Co. and big holdings of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Allied gave no reason for any of these investments, but others noted that Allied buys much coke from Sloss-Shemeld, once sold much gas to American Light & Traction, was a heavy creditor of Virginia-Carolina Chemical when it went through reorganization, has large sales of chemicals to the two big glass makers...
...increases range from 5% for agricultural products to 10% on iron & steel products. There are no changes in the rates for bituminous coal, lignite, coke, iron ore, fresh milk & cream and refrigerator service...
...pact last week came from the Pennsylvania Coal industry whose United Mine Workers and mine operators let out a howl in unison. Both were alarmed because, in carrying out Secretary Hull's policy of building up foreign trade, the agreement was expected to exempt Soviet coal and coke from a special $2-a-ton tax, assessed under the Revenue Act of 1932. The coal industry's alarm diminished promptly when the Soviet Government saluted the agreement by announcing that coal exports to the U. S. next year will not exceed 400,000 tons, slightly less than Russia shipped...