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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's longest gas pipeline is going to be built across Canada. This was announced last week by Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe after a four-day conference in Ottawa with officials of two pipeline companies. Canadian-owned Western Pipe Lines Ltd., which had sought permission to transport Alberta's natural gas to Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which wanted to build an all Canadian line, had agreed to merge. The new combine will build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Princess, Alta. to Toronto and Montreal. The pipeline will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Dream Pipe | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...whispers grew louder in Manhattan. Godfrey was reported to have said that he was giving up smoking. Alternatively, he was said to have switched from Chesterfields to a pipe. Some pundits sagely viewed the incident as a sign of Godfrey's decline: "Coming after the LaRosa rumpus, it's another blow at Godfrey's prestige." Godfrey was rumored to be leaving CBS for NBC. to be retiring from radio & TV, to be thinking of entering 1) the Government or 2) a monastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Like a Divorce | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...rumor that Godfrey was giving up smoking? Replied Stanton: "If he said that, it was probably as a joke. I can't believe Arthur would be that rude to a personal friend like Ben Few [Liggett & Myers president]. And there's nothing new about his smoking a pipe-he does it every now & then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Like a Divorce | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...were not the sort to badger officials, but something had made them desperate. Last week they trooped into the office of Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton to present a special petition. "Governor," said one of the men, "I'll bet you a cowboy hat and a new pipe that you can't match this story any place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lost Battalion | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...producers in the Williston Basin may soon have a pipeline to carry their crude oil to Midwest refineries. A committee representing eleven producers (among them: Shell and Socony-Vacuum) has asked the Shell Pipe Line Corp. to start studies for a large-diameter line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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