Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Chemical Society convened in Detroit last week, Professor Ernst Berl of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute for Technology made an astonishing announcement. He said he had made, experimentally but successfully, oil, coal, coke and asphalt from grass, leaves, seaweed, sawdust, scrap lumber, corn, cornstalks, cotton...
...large as many Wall Streeters had thought. While the common shares of Pepsi-Cola soared from $35 in 1938 to over $365 a share early this year, Coca-Cola common idled between $105 and $142. Some excitable brokers figured that "PC" sales were at least half those of "Coke...
Census takers in Pittsburgh revealed that they had not completely succeeded in cataloguing Helen Clay Frick, 49, spinster daughter of the late Steel and Coke Tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Said she: "I am a Republican and a good American citizen. I don't object to the census. I answered every question except those which were not proper. They asked the value of my Pittsburgh home. That is a personal question. . . . They asked my education. That is a personal matter, it is none of their business...
...take Denmark's larder without putting anything in, he must sacrifice plenty to get his Norwegian loot. In order to keep the labor of digging, cutting and fishing under way, he must send into Norway just the things Germany can spare least-food, clothing, oil, coal and coke. Obviously he considered this temporary liability worth hazarding for the strategic asset involved: control of Swedish...
...wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like Henderson. Least hardboiled, most likable of the New Dealers, he is nevertheless the most daring and original theorist among them...