Word: coke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry who finds a hunk of rotten fish anywhere along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff...
...Coal & Coke, Next day another New York State Supreme Court Justice, also in Manhattan, saved NRA from a whitewash score for the week by forbidding a coal company to sell fuel below the price set by code authorities...
...65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank-verse narrative that seems sometimes garrulous but never silly; though his poetic fire is down to a low blue flame, it is not yet extinguished. Fed by no fiercely burning faith but well banked with the coke of agnostic irony, it may well flicker along through many another winter...
Chatting economics excitedly with his gorgeously uniformed military staff, General Ismet then boarded a yacht loaned him by Dictator Kemal, sailed to two likely sites, one on the Bosporus, the other on the Black Sea, where he founded respectively a bottle factory and a semi-coke plant. The ceremonies over, he gave a champagne supper to foreign experts who are coaching Turkey's Plan...
Point at issue was whether electric current was subject to Illinois 2% occupation tax. Twenty power companies headed by Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, and Central Illinois Public Service contended that current was an intangible, hence nontaxable. The State contended that current was a tangible and taxable commodity. The companies stood to lose in taxes, the State to gain in revenue, some $5,000,000 annually...