Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that end, all stops are out on the appeasement pipe-organ, and Chief Organist Stephen T. Early has orders to stomp on the bass. Time was when Virginia's old fireball, Carter Glass, would as soon enter the White House as a poolroom; likewise, Utah's William H. (I'm Against It) King, and many another. Now these conservatives are smiled on, their counsel taken, their birthdays and patronage remembered...
...tended to do a little better than railroads. In 1925, when anybody with enough spare cash for a second-hand truck could go into the trucking business, trucks carried less than 2% of all U. S. freight. The rest was taken care of by the railroads (76%), waterways (17%), pipe lines (5%). By 1937 trucks were up to 5%, railroads down to 66%, and the process apparently still goes...
Hong Kong was once a valve controlling the flow of fabulous trade out of South China. Then the Japanese got a valve of their own farther up the pipe at Canton, and Hong Kong became a comparatively dead city. It is still one of the most beautiful ports in the world-its harbor is like a Wedgwood plate full of sugar buns-but it is now a negligible trade centre, and Britain plans to abandon it at the drop of a bomb...
...48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four inches, read to the assembled directors a letter, while Board Chairman Owen D. Young puffed a pipe. Nobody was taken by surprise. The previous evening they had all had a quiet evening talking about it at the Metropolitan Club: after serving 17 years together, and reaching G.E.'s retirement age of 65, Swope and Young wished to retire on Jan. 1. The directors then elected...
...before their government Dictator Stalin's "final offer." Mr. Tanner had hopes that "we can come to an agreement," reported that Tovarish Stalin had assumed personal charge of the Russian-Finnish negotiations. Negotiator Stalin was "very friendly and cordial" and smoked cigarets endlessly instead of the usual pipe...