Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Fish heard from his future customers. Portland Gas & Coke Co. President Charles Gueffroy flatly refused to sign a contract for San Juan gas until he knew the price. Complained Gueffroy: "We are on the expensive tail end of the pipeline...
...seven months the labor situation at the Government's vital Oak Ridge and Paducah atomic-energy plants had been as explosive as an Abomb. The C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers union wanted a raise in pay, angrily threatened a crippling strike to get it; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which runs the plants, turned down the demands. After a three-day strike last July, Labor Secretary James Mitchell and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther both pleaded for a settlement, but negotiations bogged down again; an 80-day injunction only postponed the inevitable showdown...
...though Clasby had a medical release, Jordan refused to use him, barking "I don't know when he'll be back" at the press. As a coach, he sets trite but essential examples of fitness for his team. He neither drinks nor smokes, but nibbles candy bars and drinks coke instead. And although he demands "100 percent effort" on the field, he does not police his training rules. He admits "I don't expect any great rah-rah spirit here, I know the Harvard man wants to have a winning team. At the same time, I know he doesn...
...planemakers in three months, has spread to the Navy's air arm, which spent $700 million for new equipment in October alone. Biggest contracts: $194 million to United Aircraft Corp. for jet engines, propellers and helicopters; $165 million to Grumman Aircraft, mostly for its new supersonic F9F9 "Coke Bottle" jet fighter (TIME...
...signs that it had arrived. The steel industry, heartened by an upturn in orders, scheduled operations at 66.3% of capacity, highest rate since June 28. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans for a new "multimilliondollar" plant in Utah for making oil and gas pipe, for a battery of 59 new coke ovens at its National Tube Division in Lorain, Ohio, and for improvements at Chicago and Pittsburgh plants...