Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will carry about 300,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas a day from the Texas Panhandle to the fuel-starved West Coast. The line, built at a cost of $70 million in a record nine months, took its name from the last 214-mile stretch of 30-inch pipe, biggest "high test" pipeline ever laid...
Golden Multitudes is a history of American pipe dreams : a record of nearly three centuries of U.S. bestsellers. It is doubtful if there has ever been assembled any where such a comprehensive list of such complete irrationality, so many ridiculous scenes and characters, so much solemn nonsense and so much moralizing, posturing and ham acting, as in Frank Luther Mott's account of the books which the U.S. public has purchased by the millions...
...mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
None was awaited with more interest than the new overture by brilliant young Aram Khachaturian, 43, which will have its premiere in Leningrad during the celebrations. He had scored it for 110 pieces, including a pipe organ and 18 trumpets. Said he: "It has no literary program-it is pure music." Then he hastily added: "But it has ideas . . . the legitimate feeling of pride and rejoicing for our nation's victory over the German invaders and the social significance of the 30th anniversary of the revolution...
...reaction, academic or otherwise, was displayed by the two recognizable minions of law and order. Chef Alvin Randall puffed his pipe in contentment throughout, and Sergent Jim Toomey only moved into action when an abandoned Princeton car was turned into a large kettledrum by some over enthusiastic team supporters.Two of the Crimson's youngest supporters inspect a Yard Cop as he listens to a motley throng of pre-game noise-makers...