Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guess from reading the biggest and blackest headlines, the "Mad Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...
...Yourself. Last month in a Brooklyn movie house, a pipe-bomb exploded, injured seven people. On Christmas Eve a page found a sock-wrapped bomb in a telephone booth of the New York Public Library. Three days later the bomb squad followed a tip to Times Square's famed Paramount Theater, searched high and low after the last show, found another pipe-bomb hidden in a seventeenth-row seat. Two detectives dressed in protective steel clothing gingerly loaded the bomb into a steel-mesh enclosed police truck, whisked it out to a lonely beach...
...said Beth Steel, is that the two companies are more complementary, both by geography and by the products they make, than competitive. Bethlehem has plants on the east and west coasts, while Youngstown is concentrated in the Midwest. Youngstown produces many products that Bethlehem does not, e.g., seamless weld pipe, while Bethlehem manufactures steel types not made at all or in any large quantity by Youngstown, e.g., structural steels, rails, castings, stampings, machinery, freight cars, ships. The merger would permit product and geographic expansion that neither company could finance in the tight money market...
Around the clock, Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America pipe words of encouragement to the people behind the Iron Curtain, urging them to throw off the yoke of Communism. But there was no action in Hungary. We stood idly by and watched heroes die. I cannot help believing that now these words, without our backing, were the cause of as many deaths in Hungary as that of Russian rifles. Will the people of the Communist satellites ever place their faith in us again...
...hair-thin strands of optical glass as light carriers. Light entering an ordinary clear glass or plastic rod is reflected over and over again from the inner surface until it emerges again at the far end. This familiar principle causes the rod to act as a "light pipe." Dr. Kapany conceived the idea of bunching thousands of microscopic glass rods, each of which would transmit a single point of light. The bundle of points of light should form an image in much the same way the pattern of ink dots in a newspaper illustration forms a picture...