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...Forty-nine-year-old Alfred Nessler of Schenectady made a new world's record by keeping his pipe going without relighting for 87 minutes and 55 seconds. ¶ One out of every four workers in U.S. factories is a woman, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. In 1947, 3,100,000 women worked in factories, 800,000 more than...
...trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear in all their full-dress glory: scarlet and blue uniforms with pipe-clayed breeches and flashing cuirasses...
...will carry about 300,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas a day from the Texas Panhandle to the fuel-starved West Coast. The line, built at a cost of $70 million in a record nine months, took its name from the last 214-mile stretch of 30-inch pipe, biggest "high test" pipeline ever laid...
Golden Multitudes is a history of American pipe dreams : a record of nearly three centuries of U.S. bestsellers. It is doubtful if there has ever been assembled any where such a comprehensive list of such complete irrationality, so many ridiculous scenes and characters, so much solemn nonsense and so much moralizing, posturing and ham acting, as in Frank Luther Mott's account of the books which the U.S. public has purchased by the millions...
...sheik) ; the soldiers of fortune, the prisoners of Zenda, the daughters of the regiment, the little shepherds of Kingdom Come; here are the ministers who gave up their pulpits and went into the slums or who, out in the great west, or in the north woods, found peace and pipe-smoking contentment far from the falsities of society. The book has something of the fascination that might be found in a catalogue of paste gems...