Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mission, beaming with uncommon good will. After two months of dickering, they had signed a treaty with the Argentines under which the two countries will work out a barter exchange of Argentina's agricultural products (mainly linseed oil and hides) for Soviet petroleum, coal, iron, steel, precision instruments, pipe, rails, rolling stock, axles and tires. Goods worth $150 million are supposed to change hands-if both sides deliver. In addition, the Communists agreed to extend a $30 million credit for mining, oil drilling, railroad, agricultural and generating equipment...
Last week Moody's wistful hope seemed less of a pipe dream. With a syndicate of well-heeled and well-connected backers of predominantly Democratic leanings, Moody took a 15-year lease on Detroit's Michigan Rotary Printing Co., which has been printing a profitable 800,000-copy Shopping News, and several weeklies. Its modern presses could easily print a daily newspaper of either 32 or 48 pages. Reported cost of the lease (with an option...
...ascribed to Admiral Jellicoe. commander of the British Grand Fleet: "The only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon." In that sense, Allen Dulles has the most important mission in the long, sordid, heroic and colorful history of the intelligence services. This scholarly, hearty, pipe-smoking lawyer is in strange contrast to some of his famous predecessors in intelligence history...
...Platte Pipe Line Co. will open a $62 million, 1,149-mile, 20-inch oil pipeline next week that will give Rocky Mountain oil producers a big new market for their crude. The line, which runs from eastern Wyoming to refineries near St. Louis, is capable of delivering 110,000 barrels...
...meet El Paso's pipe at the California border, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will spend $26.7 million putting up 227 miles of new pipe, and two Los Angeles power companies (Southern California Gas and Southern Counties Gas) will lay a 73-mile pipeline at a cost of $7,500,000. The California companies will split 300 million cu. ft. a day; the other 100 million cu. ft. will go to West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona...