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...known, to use in coloring black paints, waterproofing roofs, blacking inks and even paving streets. Eventually the company was bought by the Barber Asphalt Co. (now Barber Oil Corp.), which in 1946 teamed up with Standard Oil Co. of California to try to extract gasoline and high-purity coke from the Gilsonite...
...Major Field. There the water is drained off and the dried Gilsonite is fed into retorts from which flow 54,600 gal. of gasoline and at least 250 bbl. of fuel oil daily. Some 275 tons of high-grade metallurgical coke are obtained from the cracking process for sale at about $30 a ton to the coke-shy aluminum-smelting industry. So good is the gasoline obtained from Gilsonite that it has a higher octane rating than several premium leaded brands. American Gilsonite figures the cost of a barrel of its crude, laid down at the refinery...
Brownell's plain words, which he plainly linked with President Eisenhower's prestige and power, were worthy of Westminster Hall. Just outside the hall there had been the Star Chamber, and it was there that Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Edward Coke (rhymes with book) defied King James I in 1608. "The common law," Coke cried out, "protecteth the King!" King James shouted back: "A traitorous speech! The King protecteth the law, and not the law the King!" James shook his fist furiously, but Coke stood his ground for the enduring greatness of England. Quod...
...Brazil and Chile; it is building another in Mexico and, together with Farbwerke Hoechst, will add still another in Pakistan. In the U.S. it owns a 50-50 interest, with Monsanto Chemical Co., in West Virginia's Mobay Chemical Co. (polyurethane plastics), and a 50% interest with Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co. in Manhattan's Chemagro Corp. (insecticides...
Readers of Author Bowen's biography may be tempted to compare Justice Coke with her earlier subject, Mr. Justice Holmes. Seen superficially, both were liberals and doughty fighters for freedom against privilege. But they meant very different things by freedom, privilege, and, in the end, by the law itself. To Coke, the law, however flexible, must be based on permanent principles and rest above persons. To Holmes, the law was based less on permanent principles than on current need, an experiment shifting with the times. To Coke, liberty was "such a fellow that he will have no sovereign...