Word: pipefuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere in West Germany last week, two of the free world's top intelligence chiefs met in secret conference. One was pipe-smoking Allen Dulles, head of the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency. The other: shadowy Reinhard Gehlen, 58, head of West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service and a man who has been giving the Communists fits for nearly 20 years...
Between seizures of hot blood and high deeds, the heroes-one for each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...
...Violent Instrument. Essentially, a shock tube is a strong-walled metal pipe, a few inches in diameter, from which the air can be pumped. At one end, a section is walled off by a copper diaphragm: that section is filled with an explosive mixture of oxygen and hydrogen. At the other end is a vacuum tank, and just ahead of it is a tiny nose-cone test model. When an electric spark explodes the oxygen-hydrogen, it bursts through the diaphragm and into the vacuum. Ahead of it rushes a hot shock wave that hits the test model at actual...
While Evans was buying into Briggs, he picked up the facilities of four firms-Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co., National-U.S. Radiator Corp., Swartwout Co. and Pipe Fabricators. When Briggs directors flatly turned down his offer to buy Briggs outright, Evans (through Crane) bought 21% of Briggs's common stock, the largest single block. He was all set to elect at least part of an "independent board" of his own choice, which was likely to be more amenable to his taking over. But the court found that Evans' attempt to take over Briggs may violate antitrust laws, blocked...
...machinery industries are also raiding their large inventories instead of ordering steel at their production rates. The oil industry is one of the few that are actually using less steel. Because of the slowdown in drilling, it has substantially cut the use of steel for tubing, casing and drill pipe...