Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rico. He omits pomp & ceremony, answers the telephone himself, keeps no one waiting, replied to a newsman's request for an appointment, with a wire reading, "Will be in my office from ten to four tomorrow." Smooth-faced, thin-haired, he offers visitors cigars, smokes an old black pipe. No implement man, he leaves routine management to President Max W. Babb and other executives. After he pulled the company through its receivership, grateful stockholders gave him a large bonus and stock-option, which he promptly divided among 100 of his key men. ''No executive is worth...
...Sanctions- This was quite above most British voters' heads, and the Cabinet knew it. By the time His Majesty's Government had risen last week, as usual without intimating to the public any of their august decisions, leading correspondents, who had been sucking on their Cabinet pipe lines, were flashing crisp dispatches...
This was exact. Stanley Baldwin, cutting exactly the figure of John Bull, sounds the note most appealing to Britain's masses, and even when he has bumbled-usually in foreign policy-his air of wisdom, serenity and candor keep him as popular as his evil-smelling briar pipe. To the convention of his Party last week Leader Baldwin promised...
...country's only paper. Because he works 20 hours a day. Conquering Lion of Judah is almost inaccessible to the Press. Occasional handouts from his official press bureau, written in French, contain scant news. Last week, for their chief source of information, correspondents had to resort to private "pipe-lines." Only thus, through expensive bribes, could they track down the hundreds of rumors which flashed daily through the streets of Addis Ababa...
...insulated and sheathed in a lead case. Developed primarily as a telephone improvement (it transmits 240 messages simultaneously), it can also handle a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide, is able thus to transmit the fluctuating lights & shadows of television. With this cable it would be possible to "pipe" a televised program all over the U. S. A. T. & T. patented its cable, applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental line between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Cinema executives objected, professing to see the fertile seed of a ruinous monopoly. The Commission decided that...