Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she found it, it was smoking a pipe...
...Pipe-smoking Harold Boeschenstein (pronounced Beshinstyne) last week sat behind an immaculate, paperless desk in Washington while about him swirled a paper-littered storm of questions, demands, complaints, pleadings and pressures. As acting director of WPB's Forest Products Bureau* he is the Government's unenvied Solomon, who has to decide who gets how much paper-and there is not enough paper to go around...
...project requiring 200,000 tons of shipping space, hundreds of vital priorities, shiploads of precious refinery equipment, 4,000 troops, 12,000 civilians. Prospectors probed for oil 75 miles south of the Arctic circle; roads sprang up through Canada's frozen wilder ness; shivering crews stretched 4-in. pipe line from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River across 500 miles of barren north west territory to Whitehorse on the Yukon...
Eviction. In Belgrade, Neb., Mrs. Adelia Ward, baffled by a balky drain pipe, finally called a plumber, who went to work, extracted from the pipe 60 hibernating snakes...
With the aid of a spick-&-span new automatic press and four assistants (two are Army men who work part time), pipe-smoking, cap-wearing Horace Moore is doing the best he can. But gone are the five-day weeks and the life of Riley. Whitehorse's frosty, ink-stained paradise has been invaded...