Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green Light. To keep the nation's railroads "in a reasonably healthy condition," the Interstate Commerce Commission granted their request for an emergency increase of 10% in freight rates. Exceptions on coal, coke and iron ore rates reduced the overall increase to 8.9%. Estimated annual increase in shippers' bills: $700 million...
...told a Kiwanis meeting that "no self-respecting, able member of the present faculty would serve as president. But the regents will have no trouble finding a bootlicker or a quisling...." A few days later, the regents named Theophilus Shickel Painter, a mild-mannered zoology professor, as president. Governor Coke Stevenson told the regents that, if he were one of them, he would fire Dobie "without batting...
...Right now there is an annual deficit of twelve million tons of coke in Western Europe. [But] we have been able to wipe out this deficit by simple cooperation. . . . We have recommended that henceforth no more coke shall be used for heating houses or stoking factory boilers. All available European coke is to go straight into steelmaking. . . . Blast furnaces shall use more scrap. . . . Germany is littered with scrap...
...French, who were consulted beforehand, did not like the new figure but might grudgingly accept it. French opposition to any rise in German production had been softened last week: the Americans and British agreed to consider a big increase in the amount of German coal and coke that would go to France. Through such increased coal deliveries the French might get enough to double their own 6 million ton steel production...
...Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...