Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately the idea is likely to remain a pipe dream of Republican campaign managers. President Harding has always been reluctant to talk about himself and now does not view with favor Mr. Davis' plan. Congress, which holds the purse strings, still has unpleasant memories of the criticisms which fell on Mr. Creel's Public Information Committee for alleged propagandist efforts. The Administration Publicity office would doubtless degenerate in a very short time into a propaganda bureau with the sole object of keeping the defending party in and the besieging party put. It probably would not even be successful, to that...
People have shuddered in reading about the famous plagues of history,--the swarms of files which soured Egyptian tempers, the campaigns of the African ant-armies, the rats of Hamburg which the Pled Piper charmed with his pipe. But these pale before the contemporary radio plague. It has swept the country, closed the family phonograph, put dust on the family piano. No Pied Piper has come forward to charm it into the ocean so a radio council has gathered at Washington to control the tyranny...
...That through the control of pipe lines connecting the great producing fields of the West with the consuming territory of the Middle West and East, the Standard companies monopolize the transportation of oil, nullify the law declaring pipe lines common carriers, render the possibility of effective competition by independent producers and refiners utterly futile...
...specifically American production. The American companies named as being under foreign domination include the Union Oil Company (Delaware), the Union Oil Company (California), and the Shell Company (California). These together control over 240,950 acres of oil lands in the United States, including extensive properties in refineries, pipe lines, tank cars, and marketing equipment...
ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure...