Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Iron and Steel Institute estimated that steel production had dropped from 98.3% to 96% last week, as one plant after another banked furnaces because of the shortage of coke. The estimated drop in tonnage: 74,500-enough tons of steel to manufacture some 80 or 90 submarines. If the strike continued, OPM estimated that steel production would drop to 95% of capacity this week, 85% the next, 60% the next...
According to some boosters of Government health insurance, Chile provides a better system of medical care for its people than the U.S. This week an able Chilean, who should know, flies home from Manhattan after a visit to U.S. medical centers. Young, vivacious Dr. Eduardo Cruz Coke (rhymes with coke), author of Chile's national health law, told reporters how Chile watches after the health of its 5,000,000 citizens. Some hows...
...Compulsory vaccination* has wiped out smallpox in Chile. Diphtheria has likewise been practically eliminated. Insanity is not common. Greatest health problem in Chile is a high infant-mortality rate. According to Dr. Cruz Coke, the trouble is not the medical care in hospitals but the conditions in the home, because of low standards of living...
...present, Chile spends about 280,000,000 pesos a year on medical care. At least one-third of this total is spent in treating the early stages of tuberculosis, syphilis, diseases of the heart and circulatory system. By stressing prevention rather than treatment, Dr. Cruz Coke claims that the "health yield" of a given amount of money is increased five or six times. Said he: "The State must spend money not primarily to give a man who is ill more felicity, but to produce a healthy worker...
...paid much attention two years ago when Carrier air-conditioned a blast furnace for Woodward Iron Co., subsequently claimed an increased output and a 200-lb.-per-ton saving in coke.* Woodward followed up with two more furnaces, Jones & Laughlin with two. But to most ironmongers air conditioning furnaces at $75,000 looked too expensive so long as 35% of their plant was idle...