Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlanta the President was accompanied by Publisher Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution and Publisher John Sanford ("Major Jack") Cohen of the Journal. Publishers Howell & Cohen are pillars in opposing camps of the Georgia Democracy. Between them President Roosevelt passed a political peace pipe...
Swiftly after the War, U. S. railroads began to lose their 50-year-old transportation monopoly. To oil and gasoline pipe lines, trucks and government-subsidized barge lines, went their freight. To buses, airplanes and private cars went their passengers. Traditionally as reactionary as bankers, railmen were slow to reach for their thinking caps to cope with this new situation. An additional obstacle to concerted, thoughtful action was the industry's diversity of interests, there being almost as many railroads in the country as newspapers. In the fourth year of Depression, last week Pennsylvania R. R. introduced an elastic...
...snorted: "What! Call out the troops to protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great pieces of iron pipe, tear gas was as useless as cigar smoke. The sheriff was carried off unconscious. The mob found Holmes on the second floor. He put up a hard fight for life. Thurmond was in a cell on the third floor which had been vacated by Palo Alto's Murderer David...
...soon as the Duke of York was old enough to smoke a pipe, his brother Edward of Wales took him to Alfred Dunhill's shop on Duke Street, a smart little London thoroughfare running out of Piccadilly. As soon as the Duke of Gloucester could smoke, he was taken by his two royal brothers to Dunhill's to pick out his first pipe. And when young Prince George first went to Dunhill's, he was accompanied by his three royal brothers. That would have been a great day for Alfred Dunhill if he had had any further...
When he opened up as a tobacconist on Duke Street a few years later, his tobacco was all right but his pipes were not. So he sent to the Italian Alps for briar roots and began to make his own. Young British officers took them to war by the thousands. Before long the Dunhill pipe with its round white spot on the stem was thoroughly internationalized. On this amazing bit of word-of-mouth advertising Alfred Dunhill began to build a world-wide pipe business. Today there are Dunhill agencies in 57 lands from Trinidad to Zanzibar. There...