Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winding Sheet. To make Joseph confess, the Gouws tied him to a tractor and beat him with a hose pipe. Then they dragged him into a tobacco shed, where watching Negroes counted 66 more lashes with the hose. "They kept lifting Joseph up and hitting him," said one witness afterwards. But Joseph persisted in his denial, so the Gouws tossed him into the truck again and drove off to consult their uncle, 69-year-old Pieter van Schalkwyk. While the family took coffee together, Joseph was left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck...
Producer Guedel is a small, fast-talking man of 40 who conceals his balding head under an ill-fitting toupee, always carries around a battered leather pipe box (full of $1 pipes) and a clipboard for recording his firecracker ideas. He calls each of his employees "vice president," likes to talk about his early years when he wrote glutinous radio shows for a fancy California cemetery. As a partner in John Guedel Productions (with M.C. Art Linkletter), Guedel has grown considerably in the industry since those days. For one thing, his programs are now much livelier; the biggest are Linkletter...
...matter what happens in the Central deal, Murchison is busy on a bigger transaction. Last week, in Canada, the Alberta government, by okaying a gas-export permit, in effect gave the go-ahead to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Eastern Alberta to Toronto and Montreal, with a planned spur to Minneapolis-St. Paul. The $3 million Trans-Canada pipeline, which will be half owned by Murchison's Canadian Delhi Oil, Ltd., will be nearly half again as long as the Big Inch. Murchison and his Canadian partners still have to raise...
...wife died in 1927, and one of his sons died not long after. To take his mind off his troubles, he moved to Dallas, started buying leases and drilling again in West Texas. When his first well in the Pecos Field brought in gas not oil, he arranged to pipe the gas into nearby towns, later expanded his gas lines into Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Arkansas. That was the start of his Southern Union...
...Questions? In Vallejo, Calif., the Times Herald carried a personal announcement: "My wife has, without cause, left my habitation and is floating on the ocean of tyrannical extravagance, prone to prodigality . . . kindling her pipe with the coal of curiosity . . . [To] abolish such insidious, clandestine, noxious, pernicious, diabolical, and notorious deportment, I therefore caution all persons from harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting . . . unless compelled by law . . . E. H. Mailliw...