Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly everyone in business talks about improving productivity, but notable breakthroughs are rare. Last year productivity in U.S. manufacturing rose 4% v. 5.8% in 1971. Lately the workers at Kaiser Steel Corp.'s continuous-weld pipe mill at Fontana, Calif., have shown that dramatic gains can be made with only minor changes in methods and machines. In the last three months of 1972 they raised their productivity by a herculean...
...movie opens with Beatrice's grimace at a department store mirror while she dons a platinum curled wig. She makes a garish picture--an aging belle whose talent for mimicry has twisted into selfmockery. She feeds on pipe dreams to bolster her comedy, but even these pile up to taunt her selfdeception...
...second episode--in which Pat visits her 20-year-old son Lance who is living in a New York hotel while looking for a "creative" job--typifies Gilbert's pointlessness. Lance is a lazy vapid young fellow with more than his share of pipe dreams and illusions. Pat is clearly sharp enough to see through his pretensions, but she does not make the effort: no Stanford graduate who has taken to frying eggs and making beds wants to tell her son that he should abandon his dreams. All of this becomes obvious almost from the time Pat arrives and begins...
...massive L.B.J. Library, wrote a volume of memoirs, and is said to have doubled the size of his personal fortune (usually estimated at more than $20 million, including land, cattle, airplanes, banks and radio stations). But mostly he devoted himself to his 330-acre ranch, occasionally helping to lay pipe in the middle of the shallow Pedernales and gradually building up his cattle herds through shrewd trading at local livestock auctions. He would come home at ten in the evening, tired and dung-booted, to tell his guests about the price of beef and about egg production problems...
...Square when a police van passed by; two students were picked up on Holyoke Street, several blocks from the "riot" in front of the University Theatre, by a passing Black Maria; one student had his nose broken and face lacerated by a policeman attempting to knock a pipe from his mouth...