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Yang Kwei Fei. A Japanese interpretation of an old Chinese legend, as slow but sometimes as beautiful as a pipe dream (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Yang Kwei Fei. A Japanese interpretation of an old Chinese legend, as slow but sometimes as beautiful as a pipe dream (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

PIPELINE EXPANSION by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. will add 25% to its Eastern supplies if Federal Power Commission approves. At cost of $166 million, Tennessee Gas wants to add 1,085 miles of new pipe and a series of bigger compressor stations to boost capacity of 2,200-mile system running from Texas to New England by 456 million cu. ft. daily, bring it to nearly 2.5 billion cu. ft. capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...delivery of goods to inland points. To compete with low-priced local brews, Milwaukee's Schlitz floats 8,000-case bargeloads (equal to 45 boxcars) to Houston by inland waterway from the Great Lakes, saves 40% on transportation costs. Most of the oil industry's steel drilling pipe comes in by barge at $9 per ton v. $17 per ton by rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon has dredged a nine-mile cut to the waterway to ship goods from its chemical plant at Seadrift, Texas, while Chemstrand Corp. dredged a 22-mile channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Intracoastal Waterway | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...some 25 million tons of petroleum products, more than half of all the waterway's traffic. From New Orleans' Harvey Lock southward, the water is lined solid with oil activity-war-weary landing craft being converted into tenders for offshore drilling rigs, big yards piled high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Intracoastal Waterway | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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