Word: coked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kathryn the Great. Many months ago, Lewis seized on the Gas, By-Products, Coke & Chemical Division of his U.M.W., put an old & trusted henchman, Ora Gassaway, in top-sergeant command. Tough, unbeautiful Mr. Gassaway was only a top sergeant. Real boss was Daughter Kathryn, whom Lewis made secretary-treasurer...
There is no lack of shortages. We lack pig iron and scrap iron, as a result of our former Far Eastern appeasement policy. We lack metallurgical coke except in a few spots. We lack rubber because, unlike Germany, we make our whole synthetic supply from petroleum, although there is no chemical reason why we should. It merely happens that the rubber patents are owned by the petroleum companies...
...Coke...
...many other fields, petroleum technology has suddenly eclipsed coal technology as a source of toluene. The oil industry is already handling the bulk of U.S. toluene production. The toluene capacity of by-product coke ovens now accounts for only about one-third of total production; the rest will come from two complicated (and increasingly hush-hush) petroleum processes...
...happy sidelight: whereas, toluene from coal costs 27-30? a gallon, toluene from petroleum costs less than 25?, and the original cost of petroleum-toluene plants is not exorbitantly high. Humble Oil's huge, new catalytic plant in Texas (capable of producing as much toluene as the entire coke industry) cost the U.S. Government only...