Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...
...club is limited in only one way. They have a wonderful clubroom, equipped with radios, victories, bridge tables, ping-pong tables and a coke-machine, but they cannot get in touch with the other communication officer's wives who are not as yet club members. It was explained that there were so many of these wives housed in many different parts of Cambridge that it was hard to look them...
Speakers and lectures and high-pressure business meetings are not the chief features of this ladies club, however. They specialize in parties and teas and coke-sessions, which take place on a once a day and twice on Sunday schedule. The last real fete was the Christmas party, at which the members are said to have consumed several bowls of fruit punch...
...Fritz Hansgirg, who kicked at changes in his carbo-thermic process. The U.S. took "Herr Doktor" into custody as an enemy alien in December 1941: Permanente barged ahead. To prevent explosions, Kaiser engineers soaked the magnesium dust in oil; to cut costs and save handling they started using petroleum coke (which contains pitch) instead of coke and pitch; to keep the furnaces going they invented new heat-resistant parts...
...used to help break up the complex hydrocarbon compounds and recombine them into more usable form. Catalytic cracking, with various catalysts and conditions of use, can be controlled to a far greater degree than the older thermal cracking, in which reactions are produced by high temperatures and pressure. But coke (carbon) is by the nature of the reaction deposited on the catalyst, affecting the speed and control of the process, and hitherto it has been necessary to call halts while the catalyst was burned off or a switchover was made to fresh catalyst...