Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corp. lent $9,000,000 to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., to build a $19,000,000 plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival Cleveland ("Dobie") Keith, the red-faced, hurry-up man who bossed the construction of the famed atom-bomb plant at Oak Ridge...
...from-gas plant, Carthage will use a variation of a method which Dobie Keith became familiar with during a visit to Germany in the thirties. With the Fischer-Tropsch method, the Germans made gasoline out of coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...
...test his method, Keith raised $1,250,000 from oilmen, built a pilot plant at Olean, N.Y. It produced only ten gallons a day. But this was enough to sell to RFC and the oil companies. Carthage will get Keith's patents royalty-free, but will pay his research firm $100,000 a year for engineering advice on running the plant...
Welcome Back. In Ames, Iowa, ex-Serviceman Keith Young returned to Iowa State College, was greeted by the bursar: "You owe a chem breakage fee from the winter of '43. $1.37, please...
This little critic went to Loew's; this little critic went to Keith's. This little critic liked heavies; this little critic liked farce. And this little critic went wee wee wee wee into the office of the manager of the Majestio Theatre. This is what he found...