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...Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer his troops had ever known who literally led his men. When an enemy fusillade struck down most of his company, including a captain standing at his shoulder, the only harm that came to Naguib was a bullet that smashed his pipe. "Why do you risk your life in this needless way?" asked his commanding officer. "It's not needless," replied Naguib. "It makes my men fight better...
...will be the only pipeline carrying refined petroleum products (gasoline, kerosene, heating oil, etc.) all the way from Texas Gulf refineries to the vast markets on the East Coast (see map). The Government considered the project so urgent to defense that it granted Ryan and his U.S. Pipe Line Co. a fast tax write-off on 25% of the construction cost, and gave him priorities for 211,000 tons of steel-equal to 16 hours output by the entire U.S. steel industry...
...able to get about on crutches, and took a wartime desk job in Washington, where he helped map postwar plans for the Petroleum Industry War Council. When the Government-built Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines were declared surplus property at war's end, Ryan formed U.S. Pipe Line to bid on them. He lost out to a higher bid from Texas Eastern Transmission, which now uses them for natural gas. But Ryan was convinced that there was still a big need for a transcontinental line, and decided to build...
...Vittorini, like most of those who have retold it, has failed to avoid seamy sentimentality. His prostitute, aflame with love on one burner and cooking up illicit narcotic deals on the other, seems to Mainardi to be "The Madonna on Horseback"; but to the reader she is just a pipe dream. When the cops put her away at the end of the book, it is no more poignant than a decision by the gas company to lock up the meter...
...Britain's eagle-faced Philip Wills, the oldest (52) pilot in the meet, soared off with the overall combined championship in a British-built Sky. Runner-Up Gerard Pierre of France, the meet's youngest (22) contestant, broke down and wept. Slowly knocking the ashes from his pipe, Soarer Wills peered down through his spectacles and said: "My boy, you have plenty of time ahead of you to become champion...