Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horsepower Grand Coulee dam, workmen resorted to one catpower. To get a cable through 500 feet of winding, 24-inch drainpipe, they tied a piece of string to the cable, then tied the string to a cat's tail (see cut), then dispatched the cat through the pipe, "energizing" the animal from behind with a powerful compressed-air blower...
...Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors, remarks, gestures-"even in the bathroom. . . . Now, wasn't that dishonorable...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...
...interrogation at No. 19 Moellergaten went on, the prosecutors tried a new persuasion: wide metal cuffs, slipped around wrist and knee, with a wing-nut attached, to press against an inner cuff like a brake band. When a pipe-length was applied to the wing nut for leverage, bones cracked like walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued...
Last December General Royce had been the King's guest. Now he had a chance to pipe in a bit more firmly the ties between the U.S. and the oil-rich King...