Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas tree that curled against the ceiling. Before him last week sat three eager listeners: South Dakota's Karl Mundt, California's Richard Nixon of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the committee's retiring chief investigator, Robert Stripling. Chambers, under oath, puffed on a pipe as he gave further testimony in the Communist spy inquiry and interspersed it with his observations on the evidence already gathered...
...mile pipeline was the brain child of Houston's Ray C. Fish, 46, president of Fish Engineering Corp., who had built the Tennessee Gas Transmission pipeline, and Claude A. Williams, an .unsuccessful bidder for the Government's Big Inch. Once they had steered their Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. past the Federal Power Commission in Washington, the rest was smooth sailing...
...looked as unprepossessing as a baker-a calm, pudgy little man who kept an old pipe in the pocket of his untidy blue serge suit. But his looks were deceiving. Whittaker Chambers, a senior editor of TIME, a Quaker, was a brilliant intellectual. Before 1938, he had been a Communist courier for the Soviet "apparatus" in Washington...
Freddie's job is comparatively simple, for a ferret. His bosses tie a length of fishing line to his collar; to the fishing line they attach another length of electrical wiring. Then, while Freddie is held at one end of a piece of pipe designed to protect wires, another man, with a dead rabbit and an air compressor, goes to the other...
...compressor wafts the scent of the dead rabbit down the pipe to Freddie's eager nose. Released, Freddie scuttles up the pipe in pursuit of the rabbit, and, simultaneously, lays the wiring. In one morning recently, Freddie laid wiring in 60 pipes, the longest of which was 130 ft. By hand, the job would have taken a human electrician a month, cost...