Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional cooling off period, the hours when the weak collapse through fear, but the strong steel themselves for the coming ordeal. His Gestapomen went to work immediately with clubs, pipe-lengths, supple whips...
...Twist. For maximum portability the Army's engineers and industrial experts designed light-gauge (4 or 6 in.) steel pipe spirally constructed, like a soda straw. A 20-ft. section weighs less than 100 Ib. Sections are joined by special couplings which can be fitted in a minute...
Complementing the pipes are collapsible storage tanks and skid-mounted pumping stations which can be readily moved. Average capacity is 5,000 bbl. a day. One mile of the line and its auxiliary equipment weighs 13 tons, less than half the weight of a regular pipeline of equal capacity. A thousand feet of this pipe can easily be handled by one Army truck and crew...
...bomb must hit within four feet of an above-ground length of pipe to put it out of operation. If it does, pressure gauges locate the rupture, pumping stations stop the flow, and repairs can be made in a few minutes...
...police beat. They help on every major Government bureau beat and on two -OPA and Agriculture-women alone represent one major press association. The editors' consensus is that they do remarkably well. A girl reporter at the Interior Department was first to dig out the "Big Inch" faulty-pipe story. The Associated Press's young Flora Lewis was 24 hours ahead on the State Department's embargo of oil shipments to Spain. The girls contend that the traditional greeting of officials at press conferences -"Good morning, gentlemen"-is no longer fit for so many feminine ears...