Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temporary "construction shacks" are two strange buildings shaped like asterisks. Around them fields are covered with stacked pipe and piled lumber. Widely dispersed among the gentle hills are enormous, bright-red gashes with concrete-mixing machines standing over them on towers. Around each machine is spread its handiwork: vast footings and foundations. Some are a quarter-mile long; some look massive enough to serve as the roots of mountains...
American Telephone & Telegraph,which uses microwaves for transcontinental television and telephone communications, is the biggest commercial user. Pipelines and other utilities are the next biggest users of microwave communication to date. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.'s President Claude Williams is installing microwave all along his 1,840-mile line from
Died. Allan M. Hirsh, 73, Virginia-born sewer-pipe manufacturer with an old claim to fame: as a college sophomore (Yale '01), he wrote Boola-Boola, the football song; in Manhattan...
...confused with the milk-curdling Scottish pipes. The medieval one-cane Italian pipe had not so shrill a timbre...
...would take nine miles of the hard to get pipe--one and a half inches in diameter to put together the freezing-point for a rink. The pipes would be had close together 185 feet in length and 90 feet across...