Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OFFSHORE OIL PIPELINE on Atlantic Seaboard will be built for $40 million to $50 million off Delaware's coast to help supply Philadelphia area. Submarine line will extend four to five miles to deep water, enable supertankers to discharge oil offshore, pipe it into Delaware storage tanks before pumping it to Philadelphia area, eliminating tricky voyage through shallow Delaware River...
...unless FPC approved the pipeline plan, FPC hustled through its approval in record time, without first passing on gas rates and financing plans, which should be completed by the end of January. By April, Murchison's group hopes to start laying pipe, plans to have the project in full operation within two years. It should prove a bonanza to all. The two lines figure to gross close to $30 million a year from the transportation and resale of gas. And since Murchison's Coastal Transmission Corp. is owned by his Delhi-Taylor Oil Corp., he should make millions...
...discoursed learnedly on the psychopathic makeup of the man who so desperately wanted recognition, speculated on everything from his childhood to his sex drives (either weak or strong, depending on the columnist). Hearst's Journal-American thoughtfully provided a do-it-yourself spread on how to make a pipe-bomb; Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Sun gave an artist's rendering of the Bomber's face (details for which were somehow set forth by a handwriting expert...
...planted bombs. Detectives by the squad were kept on the run (107 times last week alone) to such public landmarks as Madison Square Garden, Grand Central Terminal, Yankee Stadium, the new Coliseum and the Empire State Building, sometimes came up with a firecracker or an empty piece of pipe, and only once (at the Paramount) with the real goods. Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor...
...week's end the papers, thirsty and cunning in a news-dry holiday period, were still going strong. Everybody but the cops was enjoying the thrill. But there was not a man in his right mind who dared to buy a cheap watch, a small piece of pipe or a pair of red socks...