Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still picketing. We're using the railroad. We send our men over to the railroad station to pick up pipe. Our men continue to do this, and we continue to be in business. But then the boys start getting run off the road and threatened. They threw two stink bombs in my house. The house still stinks...
Since World War II, the corporation has spent more than $3.5 billion to improve plants. U.S. Steel's modern, automatic, seamless-pipe plant at Lorain, Ohio produces four times as much as an older plant of the same size-and with about half the manpower. Big Steel also has closed some of the older, less efficient plants and shunted their business to the huge new plants it has built near its busiest markets, e.g., the $600 million, 2,200,000-ton Fairless Works near Trenton, N.J. Last week U.S. Steel said it will shut the 72-year-old Rankin...
...fragile fabric of inanity." For Parade, a ballet on which Diaghilev, Cocteau, Picasso, Massine and Satie collaborated, he wrote a score including parts for typewriters, sirens, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. An eccentric in his personal life as well, he went about with a lighted clay pipe stuck in his jacket pocket, its stem reaching up to his ear. He became associated with the Rosicrucians, later founded a religion of his own, "the Metropolitan Church of the Art of Jesus the Conductor." He then issued his own encyclicals and excommunicated his enemies (including the music critic Willy, husband...
...Having personally recruited 700 Free Officers, he led the army revolt overthrowing Farouk, and wielded power through an older, pipe-smoking front man, General Mohammed Naguib, who is now under house arrest. That year Dwight Eisenhower was elected President of the U.S., and Mossadegh, having nationalized Iran's oil, was driving Iran to bankruptcy...
...chemical combination (hydrogen and ozone), burning at 5,000° F. and 500 lbs.-per-sq.-in. chamber pressure, gives an exhaust velocity of 13,000 ft. per sec. A nuclear rocket, using hydrogen at the same pressure and only 3,000° F., shoots it out the tail pipe at 19,000 ft. per sec. If the working temperature rises to 4,500°, the exhaust velocity approaches...