Word: pipefuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...account, Aluminum Pioneer Davis was the fifth richest man in the U.S. A penniless New England preacher's son, he spent 60 years building the Aluminum Co. of America into one of the world's industrial giants. At 80, he retired to Florida, seemingly ripe for a pipe, cabana and canasta. Instead, he began a second career of buying Florida real estate. Soon he owned an airline, a shipping company, an ice cream plant, one-eighth of Dade County (Miami), 20,000 acres in the Bahamas, 200,000 acres on Cuba's Isle of Pines...
...playing the match game next door at Bleeck's, which in those days was noted for its good Dutch food and Gemütlichkeit. When his reporters came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around the floor on his knees, as if searching for a lost trail. To an upstate Tribune correspondent whose copy stood in sore need of punctuation, Walker sent a full page of commas. His ways were not without their effect...
...Magnetic pipe bowls which can be parked on a car's dashboard and stick there...
...campaign to persuade clothing manufacturers to add special pockets for pipe and pouch...
...curious sidelight: one out of every five college boys who smoke at all chooses a pipe, yet the per capita consumption of pipe tobacco on campus is far below the national average. The Pipe and Tobacco Council can only conclude that many Big Men On Campus are chewing on empty pipes to impress girls with their virility or professors with their contemplative natures...