Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Prairie Oil & Gas Co., Prairie Pipe Line Co. and Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. united to form a half-billion dollar oil company. There was little news in the mere event, for the merger had been brewing for almost two years (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930). Nor was there much news in the company's size, for so gigantic is the oil business and so gigantic the constituent parts that it became only sixth biggest (see table). Nor was there anything but corporate dullness in the name which the new corporation took- Consolidated Oil Corp...
...fine it and transport it. Of Consolidated's three component parts, two have made little effort to retail oil or gasoline. Prairie Oil & Gas owns almost 2,000,000 acres of rich producing lands in the mid-continent fields but has only a small retailing subsidiary. Prairie Pipe has about 13,000 mi. of trunk and gathering lines that honeycomb the country from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, but its business is to carry oil, not sell it. Thus, on Sinclair's retail outlets depends Consolidated success and, as a great oil salesman, that...
...story begins a little slowly in the shabby dwelling of Jess Oakroyd, a carpenter and joiner out of a job; but it doesn't take long to start Jess on the highway in search of adventure and employment. This deliciously slow provincial Englishman, with his aromatic pipe and pungent quips, wanders into a troup of third-rate travelling players and becomes their stage carpenter and jack-of-all-trades. But besides propping up scenery for the troupe, he sustains the whole show for the Boston audience. The troupe has been further augmented by Young Love, male and female. And when...
...interpret this poster," he observed, "one side caricatures Chinese figures. One of them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
...usual there were some strange recipients of New Year's honors. Pipe Major John MacDonald was given the Order of the British Empire for his excellent bagpiping. Salote. Queen of the Tonga or Friendly Islands, was made a Dame Commander of the same order. Queen Salote is over six feet tall, broad in proportion and very fond of broiled fish...