Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Methods for using home materials, such as pipe, tin cans, bolts and gravel, in manufacturing bombs were demonstrated and instruction was given in sabotage nuisance tactics, such as putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial...
...fields of Emba in the Kazak Republic, which in 1916 were supposed to be exhausted, new deposits have been tapped, production is growing rapidly and a long pipe line from the centre of the fields to the Caspian is nearing completion. In Turkestan still richer fields are being exploited...
Pleased at snatching the unique account from his competitors was Ayer Partner Gerold McKee Lauck, 48, in charge of the New York office. Cherubic, white-haired, pipe-nursing Partner Lauck has a propensity for getting unique accounts the hard way. Year ago he set out for Johannesburg to persuade the crusty British South African (DeBeers) diamond syndicate to step up its ailing sales with a U. S. advertising campaign. At Lumbo, Mozambique, his Imperial Airways flying boat smacked head-on into a jetty in landing, killing two passengers and flinging Adman Lauck against a bulkhead with such force that...
...Pipe-sucking Oscar Bruno Bach began his career in Germany. At the age of 18 he made a wrought-metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII. He came to America 26 years ago, set up shop in Manhattan as a metal craftsman and industrial designer. Turning out Renaissance church doors, table lamps, fruit bowls, salt shakers and a streamlined typewriter, he inspired publicity agents to call him "the American Cellini...
...devout pipe smoker, Professor Kirsten became dissatisfied with existing pipes. He wanted a pipe which would deliver cool smoke. He did not like filters so he invented the pipe which bears his name-a standard briar bowl mounted on a non-absorbing, easily cleaned duralumin stem. The stem is built large enough to act as a radiator, cooling the smoke...