Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rock. Visitors to Chicago's World Fair in 1893 were almost able to drink White Rock pumped directly from the company's springs in Waukesha, Wis. The scheme had been conceived by one Charles Welsh who had been given the springs by his uncle, but after several miles of pipe were laid, it was discovered that the cost was too great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought back...
...detoxicating it. What his process is he refused to explain publicly last week. A patent was not yet granted. In effect, he has found a catalyst which will quickly, cheaply, thoroughly get CO turned into C02 before it leaves the automobile. The catalyst is placed in the exhaust pipe line. How best to do this, mechanical engineers are now experimenting. Road tests over 1,500 mi. with an improvised mechanism have indicated that the Frazer process is good enough to commercialize...
...Refining Co. One of the leading producers in the Mid-Continent Field, White Eagle markets its products throughout the Middle West and Rocky Mountain territory. In September White Eagle had assets of $36,000,000, of which $28,000,000 represented oil and gas leases, refining stations, pipe lines, tank cars...
Author Tomlinson's narrative of the fighting in France is bitter. On Armistice Day, while London is going mad outside the windows, he goes up to young Bolt's office, sits down alone, smokes a pipe, thinks of Charley Bolt who has been killed. The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future...