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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three nights a week at home. He ducks off to Berchtesgaden for a weekend's fishing, plays golf when he has a chance, delights in his hi-fi set (Fairchild amplifier and pickup, Tannoy speaker), which he plays at window-rattling volume. He has given up pipe smoking and drinks sparingly. "You've got to be fit in this business. When the pinch comes, you've got to operate for long periods without sleep, and the peak requirements are usually placed on you when you're at peak fatigue. During the war, I observed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: The View at the Summit | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...this is in the realm of pipe-dreams now. The HDC is unfortunately short of Idea Men these days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Tis Indeed... | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...A.F.L-C.I.O. Executive Council for a year's probation. There was not a chance. For sitting at the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was 63-year-old George Meany, the stocky, onetime plumber's helper with a mind and heart as tough as cast-iron pipe. To Meany-and the executive council-the issue was clear: the Teamsters were dirty, they had fair warning, there was no backing down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Boot for Jimmy | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...quiet, young (43), round-faced Alberta oil millionaire last week became the largest single stockholder in Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., the vast and controversial enterprise that will bring Western gas to Eastern Canada. In Manhattan, Calgary Oilman Robert Arthur Brown Jr. bought the last of Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.'s Trans-Canada holdings, giving his fast-rising Home Oil Co. Ltd. a 12% holding in Trans-Canada (v. Texas Oilman Clint Murchison's 8%. and British American Oil's 5%). By buying out Tennessee at upwards of $25 a share, Bobby Brown replaced Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Trans-Canada Sale | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...late Liberal regime's deal to lend $50 million to U.S. oilmen to build the 2,294-mile pipeline. As one of its first legislative acts, the Tory government created a royal commission on Canada's energy resources−with a mandate to delve into Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd.'s ownership, financial structure, rates and export plans, relations with gas producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Trans-Canada Sale | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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