Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jesus said*: "Go, sell all thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven." But John J. Eagan, President of the American Cast Iron Pipe Co. of Atlanta, Ga., interpreting the Scriptures liberally, bequeathed all the common stock of his Company to the employes in trust. The trustees control the Company, under the injunction " to deliver the Company's products to persons requiring it, at actual cost, which shall be considered the lowest possible price consistent with the maintenance and extension of the Company's plant or plants and 'business and the payment of reasonable...
...tobacco trade is asking: "Can the Chinaman be taught to smoke? If so, what?" Inquiry reveals the fact that in China the old fashioned water pipe is passing, and cigars are too expensive for popular consumption. On the other hand, the coolie is taking very kindly to the cigarette. In fact, declares President R. M. Ellis of the Tobacco Products Export Co., cigarette consumption is growing in China at an even faster rate than in the United States...
Most of us know Pietro, the handorganist, but few have heard Pietro, the pipe-organist. Yet both are masters in their respective fields...
...Quin often displays himself in interesting ways before the public. Sometimes he carries his lunch to his office. Again he is pictured with his almost-inseparable pipe. When he first campaigned for election he got himself a saddle horse and pair of saddle bags and rode about visiting the farmers in his district...
...cigarettes by soldiers and their increasing popularity among women, consumption mounted in an astonishing manner. On the other hand, the cigar business could no longer sell its products as cheaply as before the War, and its turnover and profits remained stationary or else declined. In recent months, pipe-smoking has been coming in again, and consequently manufactured tobacco is on the gain. One feature of the tobacco industry sometimes overlooked is the snuff business, which is also gaining in popularity. Little snuff is now inhaled through the nostrils in the old-fashioned way; instead its users, especially male and female...