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...club is limited in only one way. They have a wonderful clubroom, equipped with radios, victories, bridge tables, ping-pong tables and a coke-machine, but they cannot get in touch with the other communication officer's wives who are not as yet club members. It was explained that there were so many of these wives housed in many different parts of Cambridge that it was hard to look them...
...Fritz Hansgirg, who kicked at changes in his carbo-thermic process. The U.S. took "Herr Doktor" into custody as an enemy alien in December 1941: Permanente barged ahead. To prevent explosions, Kaiser engineers soaked the magnesium dust in oil; to cut costs and save handling they started using petroleum coke (which contains pitch) instead of coke and pitch; to keep the furnaces going they invented new heat-resistant parts...
...used to help break up the complex hydrocarbon compounds and recombine them into more usable form. Catalytic cracking, with various catalysts and conditions of use, can be controlled to a far greater degree than the older thermal cracking, in which reactions are produced by high temperatures and pressure. But coke (carbon) is by the nature of the reaction deposited on the catalyst, affecting the speed and control of the process, and hitherto it has been necessary to call halts while the catalyst was burned off or a switchover was made to fresh catalyst...
...usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri. And other week nights are taken care of by forums, which the Radcliffe girl tends to enjoy. Friday and Saturday nights are ready and waiting, and Harvard takes care of a lot of them...
...September 1932 he was ready to tackle his first job-helping to build Siberian Magnitogorsk into a Russian Pittsburgh. He worked three years as a welder, then two years more as a chemist in a coke and chemical by-products plant. He became completely at home among the Russians and married a Russian girl-a teacher of mathematics. Russian is still the language usually spoken in his home in New York-but Mrs. Scott can speak English now and she is mighty glad to be on this side of the Atlantic...