Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idlewild Airport on a sunny morning sped Charles Luckman, 40, the hustling, $300,000-a-year president of Lever Bros. There, a sleek Constellation rolled to a halt and from it stepped his two bosses, who also happen to be two of the world's most potent tycoons-pipe-smoking Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, boss of Britain's Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd., and Paul Rykens, boss of Holland's Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V. Between them, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens run the globe-girdling Lever soap empire with some 500 subsidiaries in over 40 countries...
...Nuns at Chambly, she seemed to have changed her mind, asked him to arrange a reconciliation with her mother and the priest. When Mme. Labrecque still refused to recognize the marriage, Nicol sued her and Abbe Collette for $2,000. A few days later Lucile hanged herself from a pipe in the College St. Eugene...
Owlish, talented little Dmitri Shostakovich, who intimately knows that a Russian composer must sing in tune with the Communist Party's harmonic scheme, last week gave faithful praise to the blower of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest pitch pipe: Joseph Stalin himself...
Talk of Wonders. The revolution was symbolized in midsummer when New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer stepped up to a pipe at Staten Island, turned a wheel and brought the first natural gas hissing into New York through the Big & Little Inch pipes from Texas, more than 1,000 miles away. Other pipelines snaked all over the U.S., connecting cities with the huge and still largely unused gas reserves of Kansas, Texas and Louisiana. For consumers, the effects were pleasant. When the new fuel supply reached Milwaukee, the local utility, which had made gas out of coal...
...Pipe Lines Corp. began a new $190 million Texas-to-New York line that was bigger (30 inches) and longer (1,840 miles) than the Inches, the event went almost unnoticed. California was building its own "Super-Inch," stretching 506 miles eastward across the desert to meet another 1.100-mile pipeline stretching westward from Texas and New Mexico. To handle all the expanded supply, the gas utilities themselves would have to spend another $2.5 billion, another venture whose vastness would have made it a laughingstock only a few years...