Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from alternative materials: aluminum is cutting into the auto market (the use of aluminum in cars has doubled since 1955 to an average 63 Ibs. on new models), prestressed concrete has won widespread use in the construction field, and steadily improving plastics are displacing steel in containers, furniture and pipe. Still a greater threat, steelmen insist, comes from imported steel. While they tend to exaggerate the foreign pressure, imports now take a steady 5% of the U.S. market and, confidently expecting to get more, Europe's hustling steelmakers are expanding capacities well beyond their own countries' needs...
Recording is both business and pleasure with Bruce. Last summer he took a trip across the country visiting and taping pipe organ installations with his professional equipment. He visited a number of organ and high-fidelity component companies along the way, combining travel with his favorite pasttime--sound...
...helicoptered to the ceremony. He snipped the tape and engineers turned taps to fill the first, 22-mile-long section of the canal (the rest of its 50-mile length is scheduled to open next year). As the waters rushed in, the Royal Jordanian Army's British-trained pipe band tootled The Campbells are Comin', swarthy-faced men in Arab headdress surged forward to kiss the King's hand, and happy crowds swarmed around Ambassador Macomber crying in their best English, "Hello you, hi, hi!" The U.S. contributed a relatively modest $7,500,000 to the project...
...York was forbidden by authorities in the former French Congo, who said that they could not guarantee his safety "because of the discontent and agitation provoked by events in Katanga." When Hammarskjold heard the news, his only reaction was to stare vacantly in the direction of an Indian pipe drum band, which was playing Over the Sea to Skye-a Scottish funeral dirge...
With his second wife Aline, he lived in an anachronistically Victorian farmhouse in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.,-where he covered page after page with notations for new designs while firing up a forest of matches to keep his ever present pipe alight. His office was full of new commissions (among them: the new CBS building near Rockefeller Center), and when he entered the University of Michigan Hospital a fortnight ago, he had been planning to pick up an honorary degree from the Technical Institute of Hannover, an award held by only five living men. The doctors' diagnosis was brain tumor...