Word: smokelessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chemicals: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, chlorine, dimethylaniline (for explosives), diphenylamine (for smokeless powder), nitric acid, nitrates, nitrocellulose, soda lime, sodium acetate, strontium chemicals (for explosives), sulfuric acid...
...years, St. Louis has choked in "smog"-mixture of fog and smoke belched out by furnaces burning southern Illinois soft coal (TIME, March 4). To clear the air, the city recently passed an ordinance requiring smokeless fuel or the installation of equipment to burn soft coal smokelessly. Mining towns of south ern Illinois now vow they will boycott St. Louis merchants (who sell Illinois coal miners more than $50,000,000 worth of products a year...
Last week the committee turned in its report, recommended that: 1) users of Southern Illinois coal must install mechanical fuel burning equipment to burn it smokelessly; 2) all others must use smokeless fuel - coke, oil, briquettes, gas; 3) if necessary the city must buy, sell and distribute smokeless fuel to bring it to consumers cheaply. Those measures were designed to eliminate St. Louis smoke in three years. Mayor Dickmann endorsed the plan, pledged that he would push the recommendations, and deep breathers could look forward to the day when St. Louis air would again be fresh...