Word: cokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic trouble is that butadiene can be produced in too many different ways: from the products of oil refining; from coke plants; from ethyl alcohol made either synthetically or out of such farm products as wheat, molasses, potatoes, etc. So synthetic rubber became still another battleground on which farm "chemurgy" proponents hurled their imprecations at the oil refiners...
...Kronstadt. The Baltic was a German lake and Sweden eased up on convoying. But the Red Fleet did not stay bottled. Submarines, perhaps other warships, broke through mines and nets blocking the Gulf and resumed raiding. Sweden last month resumed convoying. As of this week no German coal or coke had reached Sweden for ten days and Swedish papers warned that none could be expected for another ten. The United Nations had scored some success in hitting at Hitler's vital supply lines...
...Coke & Chemical, known as District 50, took the field in skirmish order, leaping jurisdictional fences, rounding up new members for the Lewis camp. Said Kathryn blandly: "It is amazing how many things can be traced to a coal origin, with coke, chemicals, plastics and utilities as starting points." Workers in any of those materials, the Lewises reasoned, were fair game...
...workers (embalming fluids are chemicals), boatyard employes (varnish is chemically derived). She cast a soft eye on stump-pullers in Louisiana, drop-forge workers in Michigan. Early in the game she and Father John convinced themselves that the country's 3,000,000 dairy farmers were naturals as Coke & Chemical members. After all, milk contains casein, which is used in cosmetics, plastics...
...Paris industrial region the Germans had it pretty cozy. British air power had battered the French coast and pounded many a target in the provinces-power stations, chemical works, coke ovens, refineries, railroads and rail yards. But Paris had not been molested. At Billancourt, on the Seine just outside the city, lay the great Renault plant, which in the time of France's late 40-hour week employed 30,000 workers. Now it clanged away, making tanks, engines, planes and trucks for the Germans-the Russians had found some Renault-built tanks abandoned by the Nazis on the Eastern...