Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb arched earthward in a wide parabola. Twenty-six seconds passed. At last the men in the tower saw it strike the target, saw a puny, firecracker flash of flame, followed by a pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...company's "products had found their way into so many war uses that the company could not supply more than a fraction of the demand, despite substantial increases in production facilities." A few production uses are: gliders, torpedo boats, mine sweepers, cargo vessels, army landing boats, defense housing, pipe, chemical vats, shipping containers...
...letter found its way to the then Council of National Defense, and a reply came back over the signature of Bill Knudsen suggesting that Jake go to Michigan Pipe Co. in Bay City. Jake got a contract for making steel flanges for wooden pipes. On an old and almost outmoded lathe he started turning out the flanges-slowly, laboriously. Jake was happy; he had his self-respect...
...gent any salary," said Jake, discussing his labor relations. "When we run out of money, I go over to the pipe company and get what we got coming. We take out what we need for grub and living expenses and buy war bonds with the rest...
...Buffalo-to-Philadelphia Keystone Pipe Line has lain idle since spring for lack of oil at the lakehead. Lost to the East is the line's minimum 16,000-barrel daily capacity...