Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's amiable, U.S.-educated Minister of Munitions and Supply, was arrested, fined $10 and costs in Hull, Quebec. The charge: lighting his pipe during a local blackout...
However fantastic, this is neither airline propaganda nor an operator's pipe-dream. It was announced at an eye-popping press conference in Washington by cheerful, down-to-earth General Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, chief of the Army's newly formed Air Transport Command. A combination of the old Ferry Command and the Air Service Command, ATC's stupendous assignment is to fly thousands of soldiers and tons & tons of materiel to world-sprawled fighting fronts in the fastest possible time...
...typewriter. . . . Hey, fellas, whaddaya know! Hippocrates G. Apostle just got out of Stillman! . . . Well, well,--so Johnnie Robbine is dead . . . Parson Fenn say's he's got a swell idea for an ed on the town-grown relationship . . . Hey, Charlie! How about chewing gum? . . . Let's defend the pipe . . . It's Lincoln's birthday tomorrow; we might run condolences for all his friends and relatives . . . 125,000 Babies by 1943 . . . Hey! I'm on Dean's List...
...Cows and Pipe Organs. Fairchild shopped around and the burghers helped. Here was a plant wrapped in graveyard silence, there an empty garage. Artisans could be had for the asking. Soon many a converted machine shop began displaying the Fairchild emblem. Airplane parts in a trickle, then in a stream began flowing toward the main plant...
Typical of the converted plants was the Moller pipe-organ factory. Not a few of its hands were hired by old Mathias Peter Moller Sr. 30 and 40 years ago. Now they fashion wooden training-plane wings, finished exquisitely as only sparse-thatched, hump-shouldered cabinetmakers can finish them...