Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your comment in the Dec. 12 issue regarding my fellow townsman, Edward McCrossin, contained five counts: name, age, place of accident, nature of accident and quotation. Correct were name and place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks...
Frank Preston Parish, cocky young promoter, was indicted for theft last week because he refused to turn over collateral put up by his Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. for a loan from a big stockholder. The collateral: bonds, promissory notes, "130 pieces of paper valued at ? each" -presumably shares in receivershipped Mo-Kan. Indicted early last year on a $35,000,000 Federal mail fraud charge. Promoter Parish in 1931 bought the old Presidential steam yacht Mayflower...
...Washington, the Prohibition Bureau gave 100 Ib. of lead pipe confiscated from illicit distilleries to be cast into toy soldiers for poor children...
...been on the House payroll for $208.33 per month as his secretary. On Saturdays they answer the accumulated mail of the week, go calling on Sundays. Politician Rainey- With his shock of white hair, his fine head, his ruddy complexion, his Windsor tie, his heavy crooked pipe Representative Rainey might well be taken for a great British statesman. Yet in political mind and manner he is bound firmly to the U. S. soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous...
Kentucky burley is used for pipe tobacco and cigaret blending. Wall Street. eyeing the silent war between the big makers of 15? cigarets and the makers of 10? brands, felt sure that the 15-centers were boosting the price (TIME, Sept. 19); high tobacco prices would cut deeply into the slim profit margins on which the 10-centers work but would hardly be felt by the leading 15? companies. Kentuckians did not care much, for they will jingle in their pockets some $25,000,000 more than they did last year, will go to the Derby anyway...