Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural gas pipeline between the Soviet Union and Western Europe that will supply the EEC with 20 per cent of its annual gas needs while creating numerous jobs. Europeans will go to great lengths to get their gas, making Reagan's ban on the export of Caterpillar pipe-layer equipment virtually meaningless...
...sports enthusiast, there's The Macmillan Baseball Calendar, which includes key dates from the past as well as those coming up next year. On October 20, 1910, for example, cork-centered baseballs were used for the first time. Stick that in some trivia expert's pipe and have him smoke...
...Austria and Switzerland are also expected to buy large amounts of gas from the pipeline. Contracts worth about $1 billion for the construction of compressor stations have been awarded to West German and French firms. Still to be negotiated are the contracts for 3.25 million metric tons of steel pipe worth more than $2 billion...
...propel gas through the pipeline are of U.S. design, and all of the 125 turbines driving them will be built by European firms under license from General Electric. In addition, the Soviets have decided to buy the equipment that will haul and lay the heavy sections of 56-inch pipe from the Caterpillar Tractor...
...Perelman opening moves are as fine as always. For example, the beginning of "All Precincts Beware--Pater Tigress Loose" is a vintage piece--" Saturnine, Tweedy Gabe Hammerschlag, head of N.Y.P.D.'s Confidence Detail, struck a match on his desk top and, sucking the flame into the bowl of his pipe, eyed me meditatively. Gabe and I had known each other ever since 1953, when I had helped him straighten out a rather nasty copyright mess among the Kachins of Northern Burma, and I knew that when Hammerschlag sucked flame meditatively into his bowl the unexpected could be expected...