Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before Christmas, Governor Smith of New York State launched an investigation of President Connolly's sewer system (TIME, Jan. 2). The system consisted, allegedly, in President Connolly's appointment of a special city engineer who specified a certain type of lock-joint pipe for Queens sewers. The sole local agent for the required pipe was President Connolly's good friend, one John M. Phillips. Monopolist Phillips sat back in his office swigging milk and whiskey, dictating pipe prices to contractors, growing rich. Borough President Connolly did not grow any poorer...
...until 1916 did he start branching out from production into Oil's subtler phases-transportation, refining, marketing. He formed the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co. out of seven small enterprises and built his own pipe-line to the Great Lakes. In 1917 he formed the Sinclair Gulf Corp. with his own fleet of ships. While larger companies were getting War contracts, he, an alert independent, developed a Latin-American trade. In 1919 he let his friends in on various "ground floors" of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., a towering organization of world-wide schemes...
Show. Adjoining the meeting hall was a medical exhibit. Medical literature, pharmaceutical products, surgical supplies, health foods vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...
...Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., $3,373,976. Previous year, $5,049,367. President N. F. S. Russell offered no encouragement to stockholders: "As long as French costs for labor remain at levels 50% or more below similar costs in the U. S., such importations [pipes] will remain a commercial factor. It is one of the anomalies of the situation that some of the largest public utilities, privately or municipally owned, dependent on the sale of their water, gas and power to residents of the U. S., should, for a small percentage of ultimate savings, purchase foreign pipe...
...last, with some success in his ambitious scheme to draw Rumania out of the orbit of her time-honored ally, France. An Italian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Rumanian rapprochement spanning the lower Balkans and linked up with Hungary, thus encircling Italy's enemy Jugoslavia, has long been a favorite pipe dream for correspondents. Lest it crystallize into a rumor, M. Titulescu prepared, last week, to visit Paris for a friendly chat with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...