Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queer day for the tidy, twisty mining town of Bentleyville, Pa. (pop. 4,000). Over the deserted tipple of the nearby Hillman Coal & Coke Co. the Stars & Stripes dropped wanly. Bentleyville's miners, already in their second day of idleness (they had walked out early), were underfoot everywhere, painting and patching their boxlike houses on the still-green hills, playing catch in the streets, window-shopping, lounging in front of the Methodist Church. On sunny Main Street, Bentleyville's housewives hustled through their marketing with a troubled air. Unless Mr. Lewis won or called off the strike...
Harry M. Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, Pittsburgh, a U. S. Steel subsidiary, denied that he had talked with Lewis. There had been reports that he had conferred with the miners' chief on a possible separate settlement for coal mines owned by the steel companies...
...dollars Chinese, which is the equivalent of a double-size stuffed wallet and worth about $10 U.S. (when carrying more Chinese dollars I must bring an overnight bag or briefcase along); one piece of string to keep currency wad tight; a phone installation bill of $50 U.S. (one coke in Nanking costs $1 U.S.); assorted cables from New York, etc. I leave my wallet at home, since it is inadequate...
Princeton's press box put Soldiers Field to shame. At Palmer Stadium the reporters were offered everything from coke to sandwiches to gridiron diagrams--all gratis. It may be just a subtle form or poisoning the press, but the H.A.A, might take note. Tiger Tale Told Harvard Princeton First downs 11 10 Gains by rushing 260 31 Passes attempted 9 19 Passes Completed 3 8 Gains by passes 34 196 Interceptions 2 1 Number punts 8 10 Distance punts 39 41.5 Runback of punts 34 16 Fumbles 5 5 Fumbles recovered 4 4 Penalties 8 7 Yards penalized...
...C.I.O. was still counting on the lure of the 18½? pay raise it had already won in rubber, auto and steel. But it had still found no answer to the A.F.L.'s neatest trick: a $100-reward offer for proof that the C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers were not Communist-dominated. So far, there were no takers...