Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran Chicago politician. Boss Ed had his own ideas about "spontaneous" demonstrations. Leaving nothing to chance, he ordered "the works." Plan was to bring in hundreds of placard-staves, to distribute hundreds of noisemakers (whistles, bells) to the galleries; one sitting band, one marching band and the pipe organ would contribute to the spontaneous ovation. To clinch matters, the loudest man in Chicago politics, Superintendent of Sewers Tom Garry (see p. 14), was stationed at the public-address system to give out with lots of voice...
...battle line which has no match in the world for gun power; 13 light cruisers, twelve heavy cruisers, about 70 destroyers, 25 submarines, four aircraft carriers and a highly efficient air force to screen and precede the dreadnoughts. Wherever Joe Richardson was, he was sure to be smoking his pipe, playing penny-a-point cribbage. And it was a safe bet that he was maneuvering his formidable armada at some place nearer his base at Pearl Harbor (see map, pp. 14-75) than to the South China Sea, where Japan was up to no good...
...chief headaches of the natural gas industry is the problem of balancing summer & winter load. Enough natural gas to heat a city's homes is far too much to brew its summer tea. Thus most pipe lines from the gas fields have either too much capacity for most efficient operations, or too little...
Cleveland's East Ohio Gas Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (N. J.), has too little. From Ohio and West Virginia fields it can pipe no more than 200,000,000cubic feet a day, which has meant a shortage in many a cold winter. Unwilling to spend several million dollars for a new pipe line, East Ohio has also discarded plans for storage tanks, because 150,000,000 cubic feet of needed reserve would fill 30 huge tanks, be an intolerable fire hazard...
...began to feel the squeeze. First its domestic crude supplies and pipe lines were sold to a Standard of Indiana subsidiary. Next, in 1932, all Pan Am's foreign holdings were sold. The purchaser: Standard of New Jersey, which got the famed Lago properties and the Aruba refinery (now the heart of Standard of New Jersey's foreign production), a fleet of 29 tankers, plus refineries in Mexico, Germany. Amoco became dependent once more on Standard of New Jersey for its oil and gas, was right back where it had started...