Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever been laid. There are 72,000 linear feet of them, connected with seven tons of lead to make the joints airtight. The labor of laying them alone is said to have cost $7,500. There is no water nearby nor anybody to use water. What is more, the pipe runs approximately in a rectangle 1,800 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide, with mirrors in the corners and a double row of pipe on one of the short sides, to provide a check on the accuracy of the work. Pumps are provided to exhaust the air from...
Sitting on the seashore in Normandy, dangling his feet over a cliff and cursing French pipe tobacco, Christopher Morley (famed colyumist) conceived an idea. He scrawled his pen over a piece of paper and sent it to a friend in the U. S. Said the sheet...
...Ayres does not look for any sudden recovery in the industry. As he points out, there are four great buyers of steel who absorb about two-thirds of its entire output: 1) the railroads, which buy about 25%; 2) the building industry, which takes about 15%; 3) the pipe and tank industry, using another 15%; 4) the automobile business, using about 10%. None of these four, he thinks, will do much buying this year. The railroads are already in excellent physical condition, owing to heavy purchases last year. The building industry will use large amounts of steel this year...
...corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating Premier...
Dayton, Ohio. At 7:05 A. M. Eastern standard time Maughan landed for repairs to a gasoline pipe. At 8:15 he "took...