Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucky Strike shows there is never any mention of camels or caravans, of hoards of old gold, or of chesterfield sofas or overcoats. An adman for Chesterfield recently rewrote the lyrics of the show tune, Blue Room, for Singer Perry Como. The offending line read: "I can smoke my pipe away...
...real dangers seemed to lie in a long-term slow-up of the natural gas industry, rather than immediate difficulties. Said C. H. Hinton, engineer for the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.: any "victory" for consumers through slightly lower gas bills will be short-lived, because new drilling for wells will "slow down drastically," and new contracts for additional gas supplies will be "virtually impossible to complete...
Ashes from a pipe, which ignited a pile of unfilled but inflammable cuts, started a fire in the CRIMSON's photo office yesterday afternoon...
...indict cigarette smoking, and acquit the smoking of pipes and cigars? Because the cancer-causing factor apparently must be retained deep in the lungs, a condition usually found in cigarette smokers, who inhale deeply, not in pipe and cigar smokers, who seldom inhale. ¶ Why does lung cancer concentrate on men in middle life? Because the cancer-causing factor seems to be a slow-acting agent, which may need half an individual's normal life span to do its deadly work. ¶ If cigarette tar contains a cancer-causing agent, why don't all cigarette smokers get lung...
Exploding Alarm. A fire alarm that explodes with two bulletlike reports 30 seconds apart at a temperature of 400° F. will be made by Southland Industries, Inc., Chattanooga. The alarm, consisting of two cylinders of gas in a six-inch length of stainless steel pipe, can be placed anywhere in a home. Probable price...