Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swan spread Mike's ribs and began probing for the esophagus. He found that its lower end, where it joins the stomach, was unburned. He kept going until he found the upper end; it was also unburned. But in between was a 4-in. length of scarred, closed pipe. He cut that...
...East. Last week, after 19 years in federal service, he lost his $11,800-a-year job as U.S. agricultural attache in Tokyo. "Mr. Wolf Ladejinsky," the Agriculture Department announced, "does not meet technical standards and security requirements . . ." Ladejinsky, 55, a short, intense, scholarly man who puffs a curved pipe, said quietly: "I came to America when I was 22, with no money, no friends and not knowing the language. I developed to the point where I could represent the United States in Asia, and one of my most effective anti-Communist arguments with Asians has been that my success...
...carriers union, made Dale the union spokesman for a pool of 38,000 construction laborers building power plants at Joppa, Ill. and Shawnee, Ky. for AEC's A-bomb plant near Paducah, Ky. Teaming up with James Bateman, 63, who ruled the Joppa plant's pipe fitters, Dale lost no time in calling on the Joppa plant's major contractor, Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. Pointing out that he was a "Chicago boy," Dale emphasized how tough he was; he bragged that he had been indicted for murder on another construction...
...time he pulled out 350 carloads of laborers at Joppa, kept the motorcade touring for two days around the plant. Then Bateman pulled out his pipefitters over squabbles about who should unload pipe from trucks. In 29 months, work on the Joppa plant was stopped more than 40 times. Ebasco fell so far behind that the Bechtel Corporation took over its contract (TIME, Oct. 4). The delays added $58 million to the cost of the plant...
...McMahon's Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. will build a 670-mile, $120 million pipeline from the Peace River Basin to the U.S. border, sell Pacific 300 million cu. ft. of gas a day at 22? per thousand cu. ft., pipe an additional 50 million cu. ft. a day to Vancouver...