Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate of $7 a day, but Southern operators refused to budge from their offer of $6.21. Reopening of Northern mines, strike-shut for two weeks, would return two-thirds of the nation's soft-coal fields to production. A few steel plants, which use soft coal converted into coke, had already had to shut down some of their blast furnaces. There were still prayers to be answered before peace in the whole defense industry prevailed...
When Grand Coulee Dam turned on the juice (TIME, March 31), it was generally said that a titanic wave of public power would soon inundate every Pacific Northwest private utility. But last week one utility laughed in the face of the spillways. Impudent little Portland Gas & Coke Company announced it would build a $1,500,000 addition to its gas by-products plant...
...Strawberry Blonde" is a nice bit of escape back into the barber-shop days before the first World War, when men inhaled birch beer like coke and the biggest blood-suckers were only leeches. James Cagney in his usual punching self demonstrated that the world is his with two fists and a correspondence course in dentistry. He picked up an alluring nurse--Olivia de Haviland, in a swell park scene, but doesn't like her. Instead the cockney Irishman chases exciting Rita Hayworth, the strawberry blonde, and isn't fast enough to land her. But you knew he would marry...
...added that no priorities need be established at present for steel: that present production could even be increased if needed; and that anyone who can't get enough steel need only come to Washington. He did note a "small" shortage of coke, a "slight" shortage of pig-iron ingots, and a need to shorten the closed-for-repairs periods normal in steel furnace operation...
...were the part of the report the President had skipped. First "if" was pig iron. Pig output must be increased by 1,675,000 tons in 1941-42. Second "if" was coke: its output, already a bottleneck, must be increased by 8,031,000 tons. Third "if" was allocation of orders: maximum production, said Dunn, can be reached only if orders are spread evenly throughout the industry. Fourth "if" was a shift back to Bessemer steel: little-used old Bessemer ovens should be put to making steel for barbed wire, nails, low-grade pipe...