Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked out of the window and found the train stopping half way between Kecarevo and Strazica. Here was a stop he never makes when he drives the Sofia-Varna Express. He ran forward to the locomotive, found the stuffing in the axle boxes blazing from an overheated oil feed pipe. The regular engineer was painfully burned about the hand. Regally commanding alarmed passengers, who set up a cry of bombs, Bulgaria's Boris leaped to the throttle and drove the train carefully to the nearest bridge, where he put out the fire with wet sand. He dressed the engineer...
...back at the time of popular Princess Mary's marriage to Viscount Lascelles. Exceptions are made for reasons of State and publicity. Thus the official list of wedding gifts accepted by King George's parents includes: "from ten newsboys, a cigaret-holder; from three bus-drivers, a pipe ; from five hansom-cab drivers, a whip...
...wealthy young Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville, Ky. fortnight ago, put the Division of Investigation ("D. O. I.") agents on their mettle. Mrs. Stoll, ill with a cold, was seized shortly after 3 p. m. from her suburban house by a man with a revolver and a lead pipe. The Stolls did not ring famed NAtional 7117 in Washington, as every kidnappee's family is supposed to do. The first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message at 7 p. m. from a relative...
...East Texas Field is a perfect network of secret pipe lines, bypasses and other ingenious devices of knavery. Everybody knows it. Administrator Ickes has declared that if oilmen would furnish the evidence they have in their hands he could cut off every drop of hot oil in 48 hours. Oilmen swear they have turned in enough evidence to convict half the population of Texas but nothing is done...
...special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship." ...Fire control rooms exist on some of the very large liners but on the Morro Castle and like boats, fire apparatus is installed on the bridge.... It is possible to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to the inaccessible cargo and like spaces. It is not permitted by law, at the present time, to pipe any fire-extinguishing gas into passenger quarters.... The only method of fighting the fire...