Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first I thought he was from Princeton, there were so many of them around that weekend. He held a pipe in his teeeth, had a Scotch in his hand, and was dressed like the incarnate ideal of Ivy Magazine. But squelching a Cliffie with a crack like that overcame my initial repugnance, so sidling over, I soon put in a friendly word for Bertrand Russell...
...over the U.S., homemade rockets are fizzing, exploding and-on rare occasions-soaring into the sky. Sometimes they fall to earth, their launchers know not where. A San Antonio housewife hanging out her wash heard something swoosh down from above, and a length of pipe buried itself in the earth close to her feet. In Boston the National Fire Protection Association urged that amateur rocketry be prohibited until a strict system of supervision can be established...
Designing a successful solid-fuel rocket is largely a matter of matching the burning rate of the fuel to the nozzle through which the gases escape. This is not easy for skilled experts. For kids with a collection of pipe fittings, a couple of chemicals and almost no knowledge, correct calculation is almost impossible. Many of their rockets are like the crude pipe-bombs that the Mad Bomber hid in Manhattan movie theaters. Some are much worse. Kids are apparently able to acquire most of the hair-raising chemicals that they have been reading about in books on rockets...
...nearly two months, gas pipeline rate increases have been held up because of an appellate court decision in a case involving the city of Memphis and the United Gas Pipe Line Co. of Shreveport, La. (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week FPC decided to grant boosts despite the ruling that pipelines may not raise their rates unless their customers agree, a decision that cast doubts on the legality of $200 million in recent increases. FPC now authorized the El Paso Natural Gas Co. to put into effect a $16.5 million rate increase, provided that it posts a bond for that amount...
Innocenti began mastering the intricacies of such quick-opening plays in 1935, when, still a plumber, he invented and patented a gadget for bolting vertical and horizontal sections of pipe together to form scaffolding. He made his first joints himself, soon had enough cash and orders to persuade bankers to back a factory. His factory turned out miles of pipe and thousands of joints for scaffolds, pontoon bridges, temporary grandstands. In World War II he switched from pipe to artillery shell production. At war's end he decided to turn his pipe into the framework of a motor scooter...