Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...
...They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister: "I can't. It's lit." A reporter asked him how the talks were going...
...last trickle of goods to Red China and Manchuria, forcing some already-loaded ships to discharge cargo. The order was specifically worded to catch four ships now at sea, including the Isbrandtsen line's Flying Clipper, reported heading for Tientsin with a cargo of steel, tin plate and pipe...
Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine nervously pushed through the crowd and cached the head table. There before him in the seat of honor was his wage stabilizer, Cyrus Ching, sucking away placidly at his stove-sized pipe. A frown of injured dignity crossed Valentine's face, but he took a seat at the left end of the table...
...Congress, he paid his own way to the capital to surrender to authorities. He refused to post $1,500 bail-he was, he said, too broke to do so. Couldn't his friends raise the money? Fifty-nine-year-old Earl Browder smiled, puffed contentedly at his pipe, and said he had no intention of asking anyone for help...