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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he was supposed to be mounting guard on the roof of the President's Palace one night last week, a Cuban soldier sauntered over to the ventilating pipe above President Gerardo Machado y Morales' bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bomb for a Bathroom | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray met Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson last week. Later Governor Murray said he had said: "We have a world of moonshiners in the hills of Pushmatana County. If the oil ever plays out, we'll hook their stills to the pipe-lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Governor to Governor | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...farmer, with ten barrels of apples, in his horse & cart. He found it impossible to get a good cash price. He swapped apples for flour, flour for meat, meat for this & that, then drove home in a Model T Ford, bringing food for dinner, coat for lis wife, a pipe, a pound of tobacco, five gallons of gasoline, 50? in cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Irving Air Chute (para chutes) 452 241 Jewel Tea Co 1,691 1,705 La Salle Extension University 341 167 McGraw-Hill Publishing. ... 2,231 2,021 Marion Steam Shovel 534 68sD Mullins (motor body parts) Mfg 476 331D Parke, Davis & Co 8,331 7,514 Prairie Pipe Line 22,800 14,637 Remington Rand 6,068 2,995 Republic Steel * 3,522D Reynolds Metals 3, 560 1,730 Standard Brands * 16,402 Standard Oil of Kansas. . . . 1,512 380 U. S. Industrial Alcohol.... 4,720 1,160† D=Deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...started flowing 22,000 bbl. per day. the boom started. Malcolm Crim has made a living for the past 20 years financing the local Negro farmers. In so doing he has acquired much land around Kilgore. Now he sits in the back of his general store, smokes a corncob pipe, parcels out his scattered estate at from $500 to $2,000 an acre although a few months ago $5 would have been plenty. The same scene is repeated in the nearby towns of Tyler and Longview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Oil | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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