Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat was really on last week in more ways than one. After some bonder from Co. 4 left one of his old coke bottles in Chaso E entry and thus restricted all of us for the second week in a row, it looked dark for the week-end boys." And then, the close escape this week, when it seemed as though tomorrow would also be half wasted. Only for Keith Broman (who, incidentally, is seeking public office, post bellum), we'd be looking forward to missing our 1 o'clock trains and dates. All is now settled...
Shortly after, he opened up two new pools in Victoria and Coke Counties, Texas. By last week he was drilling for oil, or preparing to, in 18 states. Confidently he announced that his first oil "province," the one near Roundup, Mont., and his Texas wells will pay off more than 10-to-1 for the cash sunk in dry holes...
Rose's U.S. idiom is consistently accurate: "Back in your old home town, remember the old juke box and what you got out of it? Remember the cheese sandwiches and the cokes with the gang? It's pretty hard to remember, but your juke box once had this piece: Crosstown [music]. . . . And whenever that came out of the juke box, somebody started an impromptu rumba and boy, did the manager kick. But that was only when your mood was good, whether it was the moon, the coke, or the girl...
...business has been: How will the U.S. dispose of its more than $15,000,000,000 worth of Federally owned war plants? Last week, Bethlehem Steel Corp. took action to banish its own bugaboo, by purchasing all Government-built steelmaking facilities on Bethlehem property. These were mainly coke ovens and blast furnaces at Lackawanna, Bethlehem, Steelton and Sparrows Point. Shipbuilding facilities were not included...
...cost, although many estimate that some war plants might be worth as little as 25% of cost to private industry, because of sky-high wartime construction prices and reconversion costs. But the Bethlehem purchase will set no real price precedent. There will be little, if any, reconversion cost for coke ovens and blast furnaces. As Bethlehem's President Eugene G. Grace explained the purchase: "We like to be our own landlord...