Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. subsidiary extended a 20-inch natural gas pipe line originating in Kentucky to the outskirts of Coatesville. There it came to a dead end at Poor House Road, 31 miles from Lukens' plant. Philadelphia Electric Co., which holds a franchise to distribute gas in Coatesville, was reported to have wanted to charge Lukens some $100,000 annually as commission for linking it to the Columbia pipe line. After several years of political fencing, Columbia's subsidiary this year dug in for a finish fight with the State's powerful coal interests, who were...
...tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons of West Virginia bituminous and 25,000,000 gallons of fuel oil it has been buying annually, the company will use 15 million cu. ft. of gas a day, thereby lop about 20% off its yearly $1,250,000 fuel...
Murder in the Cathedral (Sat. 7:30 p.m. CBS). The Columbia Workshop presents T. S. Eliot's verse tragedy in its entirety...
...personnel of the deliberating group included assorted college presidents, a Columbia, S. C. lawyer, two minor judges, a C. I. O. organizer, an A. F. of L. delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
...Richard Geddes Large, promptly dosed the man with insulin and asked him what he had been taking all these years in its place. The man said it was an infusion in hot water of the root of a spiny, prickly shrub called devil's-club (Echinopanax horridus). British Columbia Indians take potions of devil's-club for whatever ails them...