Word: pipefuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving up their own $500-apiece contingency funds.¶Sliced a fast $258,500 out of the previous administration's final bud'get, vowed to whittle away $250,000 more. ¶Forced the resignation of the city purchasing agent because he bought $10,000 worth of water pipe without asking for bids. (Lee drew brisk criticism by naming his own campaign manager as the new purchasing agent...
What Paule wants is to marry Roger, a pipe-smoking, frail-chasing, hairy-handed brute a few years her senior, who lacks only a trout to look like a Field & Stream ad. What she gets is a febrile few months with Simon, a delicate, beautiful and overmothered young man of 25. Neither fellow is of a sort likely to be encountered except in the lavender dells of a schoolgirl's fancy...
Iron-jawed, pipe-smoking Orlando Winfield Wilson, 59, California-educated and veteran of 19 years of police work, pioneered much of modern police technology (two-way radio nets, three-wheeler motorcycles, lie detectors, police schools, etc.) during the eleven years (1928-39) he spent building the Wichita, Kans. force into a model outfit. A World War II colonel in the U.S. Army, he organized military police systems in England and Italy, later Germany. As dean of the University of California's School of Criminology in Berkeley, Wilson was called in by 13 North American cities from Birmingham to Vancouver...
...year-old Protestant Theologian Karl Barth* recently in the Christian Century. "Climbing uphill no longer tempts me. And even my work pace at the desk has become perceptibly slower. [But] air, water, substantial nourishment and moderate exercise still help me to keep my vigor; and even my faithful pipe still agrees rather well with me." Another sign of youthfulness that Septuagenarian Barth might have added is his continuing ability to change his mind...
...Biggest burst will come from the steelmakers whose strike-deferred projects are expected to boost capital spending 50% to 60% over last year. Republic Steel, for example, plans record spending of more than $155 million on new strip and plate mills and expansion of a plastic coating line for pipe. Said Treasurer W. B. Boyer: "Our program is being undertaken not so much to raise capacity as it is to increase efficiency...