Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tasteless and odorless carbon monoxide crumples the coal miner, turns his body cherry red. From the exhaust pipe of his automobile comes the same deadly gas to fell the careless motorist who lets his engine run in a tight-shut garage. Housewives leave unlit gas stoves turned on and whole families perish. Unskilled operators give surgical patients too much anesthesia. Faulty furnaces kill college boys in their beds. Newborn babies breathe once or twice, then breathe no more. . . . In these ways and in many another Death by Asphyxia comes some 50,000 times a year...
...Harry F. Sinclair formed Consolidated Oil in 1932 out of Sinclair Consolidated, Prairie Pipe Line and Prairie Oil & Gas. Last week Consolidated Oil voted its first common stock dividend of 28?, announced it would distribute practically all profits in 1934 to common stockholders as a "recovery" measure...
...turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy's mane, whacked him again & again over the head. After ten minutes Sammy let go. Bessie rolled over dead...
...better publicized House Masters was winding up what had apparently been a rather violent argument with a strange chauffeur as we passed by the other day. With a parting fling, the Master shoved his pipe between his teeth and stomped off toward his Lodgings. The chauffeur turned to a snow shoveller nearby and inquired, "Who's that guy?" "Hum? Oh, he's the boss," the shoveller replied. The chauffeur eyed the retreating figure of the Master resentfully, and seemed to be weighing something in his mind. Then he turned to the shoveller again: "I'll bet you a hundred dollars...
...elected Governor in November, and two years later had not only abolished poverty in California but completely undermined the capitalistic system and sent the spectre of Fascism fleeing from the shores of America. The strangest thing is that Sinclair seems actually to believe in the possibility of his pipe-dream coming true...