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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very eminent Mr. Gillette again treads the boards with vigor and histrionic skill which have for so long made him a favorite and which are now filling the Shubert Theatre to the doors. It's rather hard, after all these years, to think of Mr. Gillette without the pipe and double peaked cap which accompanied his Sherlock Holmesing, but it appears that Mr. Gillette has versatility and can ably portray characters other than the Doyle hero...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

What the Department of Justice last week announced as a "major victory" in a war against natural gas monopolies encouraged the "monopoly" in question to invest $8,000,000 in the construction of a 300-mile pipe line to Detroit. Target of the U. S. Government was Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., which supplies manufactured gas, natural gas and electricity to some 1,326 cities and towns in Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York. Specific allegations involved the relations between Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., an affiliate of Columbia Gas & Electric, and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Triumph in Gas | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...soon cease to be an affiliate of Columbia Gas & Electric, observers saw no reason to suppose that future relations between the two companies would be anything but amicable. Immediately following the acceptance of the consent decree, Columbia Gas & Electric announced that it would begin work on a new pipe line running from the eastern end of the Parish line to Detroit. This pipe line may be operated under the auspices of Columbia Oil & Gasoline or directly by Columbia Gas & Electric. Another $8,000,000 will be spent on enlarging the capacity of Panhandle Eastern and other existing lines. From Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Triumph in Gas | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

What determined little Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota smokes is no peace pipe. Although His Excellency is a civilian, Japan's wary militarists have come little by little to the conclusion that here at last is a Japanese diplomat of their own stuff. They freely declared to foreign correspondents in Tokyo last week their "regret" that the death of King George must have largely crowded out of the world press the "historic" address delivered last week to the Japanese Diet by suave but hard Mr. Hirota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Piping Palmerston | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...cabaret entertainer who nearly demolishes Eddie Pink's romance with a wholesome blonde (Sally Eilers), she comes into her own, sings all three of the show's best songs: First You Have Me High, Then You Have Me Low!, Shake It Off With Rhythm, Calabash Pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 27, 1936 | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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