Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigators had never heard of him and Henry Latham Doherty knew him only as a brash young gaspipe salesman when, in 1928, Frank Preston Parish founded Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. When newspaper editors looked at his smooth young face they dubbed him "The Boy Wizard of Finance" only to learn that he had been bankrupt two years before. Oil and gas men who took the trouble to inquire about his life found great gaps in the Parish career. He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails. He had set himself up in machinery business in Chicago...
Then & there Frank Parish and his cronies began selling stock, millions of dollars worth, which was to make everybody rich. It made Frank Parish rich enough to buy the old Presidential yacht Mayflower for $16,000. The pipe line crawled northward out of Texas, headed for the Kansas City territory controlled by goateed, alert Henry Doherty. What happened after that and why, was the subject of a four-week criminal trial concluded last week in Chicago's Federal Courts. There Frank Parish and an associate were on trial for using the mails to defraud in selling Missouri-Kansas stock...
...brown pigskin leather case, marked T. O. N. containing Pipe...
...opera conductor, spoke praisingly at the first demonstration. Soloist was Organist Pietro Yon of St. Patrick's Cathedral (TIME, May 7, 1934). Under his command, the new instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console, in a bed of magnets, coils and whirling disks. With the turn of a switch, the motor was on and at the touch...
...Hammond organ can be plugged into the wall with an ordinary electric cord, costs less than 1?an hour to operate. Tone quality in a pipe organ is limited to the number of pipes. The Hammond organ can produce countless variations simply by setting a few switches and thus combining or eliminating the various electrical impulses which make the harmonics...