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...wide next September, women will be admitted to the famed Halls and Yawd of Haavahd for the first time since the date of its founding. Until that time, however, its Athletic Policy will remain the same. Admission to Haavahd's De-emphasized Football Games will still cost two empty coke bottles, a worn out light bulb and three Old Jute Bags. And it will be worth it. The Cornell Daily...
...loyalist Norwegians who fled the cities during the invasion. Persons unable to find employment, according to another ruling, "will be permitted to go to Germany for work"-i.e., forced labor. In Stavanger, each family "in conformity with the principles" of the Nazi Party was allotted a half-ton of coke. In other words, citizens who refused to play ball would get no fuel, and winters are cold in Norway...
...American Chemical Society convened in Detroit last week, Professor Ernst Berl of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute for Technology made an astonishing announcement. He said he had made, experimentally but successfully, oil, coal, coke and asphalt from grass, leaves, seaweed, sawdust, scrap lumber, corn, cornstalks, cotton...
Their other basic raw material is coke. With all by-product coke ovens working at capacity, many an oldfashioned, high-cost, beehive oven (once homes for the unemployed) was fired last week. Meanwhile the demand for coking coal outran the capacity of the steelmakers' "captive" mines, sent them into the commercial market. Result: the ailing soft-coal industry is headed toward 10,000,000 tons a week (its 1939 average: 7,800,000 tons a week), and many a factory manager began to think it might be a good idea to stack some extra coal in the yard just...
...large as many Wall Streeters had thought. While the common shares of Pepsi-Cola soared from $35 in 1938 to over $365 a share early this year, Coca-Cola common idled between $105 and $142. Some excitable brokers figured that "PC" sales were at least half those of "Coke...