Word: stoker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight years the 25,000-ton French liner Lafayette shuttled travelers between the U. S. and France. In preparation for the summer tourist season, the Lafayette was last week getting an overhauling in the Havre drydock. One night a stoker, firing oil burners with a blow torch, accidentally set fire to some spilled mazut (fuel oil) in the stokehold...
...years one of the few things for which coalmen could be thankful. In 1923, two years before the big anthracite strike that set the industry staggering, two Portland contractors, Thomas Harry Banfield and Cyrus Jury Parker, took over a small local iron works and with it a clumsy automatic stoker which they improved and called Iron Fireman...
This does not mean that Mr. Banfield has lost faith in his Iron Fireman. Sales of automatic stokers are on the rise. In 1933 one automatic stoker was sold for every six oil burners; last year the proportion was one to 2.2. But he has cogent reasons for surprising his dealers: 1) About a third of Iron Fireman dealers sell oil burners as well as stokers, and he would like them to have a complete line of Iron Fireman equipment; 2) The rest of his dealers want a crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still...
...liner Rotterdam is a Communist, refused last week in Manhattan to sign the crew's round-robin message of congratulation to Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands on the birth of her first child (TIME, Feb. 7). Explained other members of the crew afterward: "We popped that Communist stoker on the nose. The Rotterdam is a royalist ship...
...rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according to production costs. Sizes include lump, egg, pea, nut, run-of-mine, industrial slack and stoker. Qualities range from "A" through "G" or further, depending on sulfur and ash content, b.t.u. rating, etc. Result of such complications is that the B. C. C. has had to work out 30,000 different minimum coal prices...