Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Empty Bank Vaults. The consequences to Western defense are immense and progressive ; they would be disastrous but for a relatively mild winter. But British families do without meat because there is not enough coal to swap for Argentine beef; French steel mills stand idle for lack of coal and coke. The Dutch army all but disappeared over the holidays, when the government gave its soldiers an eleven-day furlough to save precious coal. Sweden sells its high-grade iron ore to Communist Poland instead of supplying its old customer Britain, because the Poles can trade coal in exchange, the British...
West German coal production is increasing by leaps & bounds (since 1946, output has jumped 300%). But though the International Ruhr Authority still earmarks 25% of German output for export (mainly to France), French steelmen complain that Ruhr shipments of coke and coal have fallen by 25% since 1949. And German nationalists are whipping up resentment against compulsory coal exports: they accuse the Allies of sending Ruhr coal abroad, and compelling Germany to import more expensive U.S. coal...
...Germany (up 12%), France (up 13%), the French-directed Saar (up 40%), Belgium (up 25%), Italy (up 29%), The Netherlands (up 12%), and Austria (up 10%). Only Britain, Europe's largest single steel producer, is below her 1950 output (by 4%), partially because of shortages of scrap and coke...
...York. Says he: "We will be able to start and stop engines along the line, open and close valves, read meters, control pressures and in fact do just about anything human beings [on the spot] can do." In operating its new pipeline from Texas to Illinois, Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. (TIME, Dec. 17) gets automatic reports via microwave on gas flow, pressure, and other conditions...
...getting money from private sources. He has recently arranged for: i) a $17,-500,000 preferred-stock issue to finance the rest of his new aluminum plant, and 2) $65 million in new private financing to add a third blast furnace, a ninth open-hearth furnace and 90 new coke ovens to his Fontana steel works in California...