Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jorge ("Coke") Délano is a peppery, jovial, chunky Latin of 47, whose chief claim to distinction is not that he is a distant cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt* but that he is founder-owner-publisher-editor and No. 1 caricaturist of one of South America's most engrossing magazines...
...Coke Is a Coke Is a Coke. In Baltimore, a Boy Scout helping out in an OPA office put a nickel in an automatic coke dispenser. Out popped the cup, down poured the drink. He picked it up. Out popped another cup, down poured a drink. He picked it up. Out popped a cup, down poured a drink. He yelled for help. A line formed. The machine automatically dispensed one hundred and forty-seven drinks...
Once run on a strictly coupon basis for all college men, the sandwich-coke-coffee place in the basement of Eliot House has been re-christened the Ship's Grill, and its patronage is now strictly naval...
...Pittsburgh plant of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. workmen banked the huge beehive coke ovens; coke production would be cut by 75% in a few days...
...every Ruhr raid has struck hard at transport facilities. All the valley's traffic is now badly disrupted. Wholesale evacuation of refugees from the bomb-strafed centers has further complicated the mess. As the Ruhr produces roughly three quarters of Germany's coal, four fifths of her coke and two thirds of the nation's raw iron and steel, the effect of transport disruption on German industry as a whole is great...