Word: gas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shaft of the mine slopes down 3,500 ft. The three miners rescued alive were working on an upper level. Below, the workings were choked with wreckage and deadly gas. Miners blamed sparks from an electric coal-cutting machine for the blast...
Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
Cyclopropane anesthetic, a new gas similar to nitrous oxide, discovered...
...went to Iowa, bought up options on public utilities. One of his Iowa deals was financed by Otis & Co., Cleveland bond house, marked the beginning of Mr. Eaton's connection with Otis & Co. of which he has been a partner since 1915. In 1912 he organized Continental Gas & Electric, one of the earliest of public utility holding companies. The Republic deal was handled through Cliffs Corp., a recently organized investment company which combines the resources of Otis & Co. with Pickands, Mather & Co. and M. A. Hanna Co., thus bringing Cleveland's famed old iron and steel Mather...
...Combustion Engineering Corp., world's leading manufacturer of boilers, automatic stokers, ash handlers and power plant devices, opened a new plant at New Brunswick, N. J. Function of this plant was to use a newly acquired foreign patent for the distillation of coal, rendering from the fuel valuable gas byproducts, light oil, and a powdered semi-coke for use in steam power plants...