Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri. And other week nights are taken care of by forums, which the Radcliffe girl tends to enjoy. Friday and Saturday nights are ready and waiting, and Harvard takes care of a lot of them...
...September 1932 he was ready to tackle his first job-helping to build Siberian Magnitogorsk into a Russian Pittsburgh. He worked three years as a welder, then two years more as a chemist in a coke and chemical by-products plant. He became completely at home among the Russians and married a Russian girl-a teacher of mathematics. Russian is still the language usually spoken in his home in New York-but Mrs. Scott can speak English now and she is mighty glad to be on this side of the Atlantic...
...freight cars. Of these 25,000 will be coal cars to meet the greater demand for overland transportation of coal and coke; 35,000 will be low-sided gondolas, 10,000 will be flat cars, both of which types are ideal for carrying tanks, artillery, other heavy pieces peculiar to war production. These cars, purchased at the railroads' own expense, are an outright contribution to the war effort; the carriers already have a surplus of such equipment for their expected peacetime needs. New boxcars, which the railroads can always use, are limited to about...
Harvard Hall and Boylston steps took on the appearance of a midwestern university, and coke dates, typical mark of the co-ed college, helped to sustain the feminine newcomers between classes...
...make sponge iron, ore is not smelted. It is mixed with pulverized coal (natural gas can also be used) and coke, then fed to a large rotary kiln. When the kiln is heated to 1,800°F., the powdered coal first robs the ore (iron oxide) of its oxygen, then turns into gas, leaving fairly pure iron granules which have a spongy texture. This stuff can then be fed to the steel furnaces...