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...comfortable, book-lined Washington office, with fireplace, Berge works quietly, with few press conferences. Like Arnold, he is a pipe-puffer; he keeps twelve pipes cooling in his desk drawer. In the next year, he expects to hack at cartels with another batch of indictments...
Coke Stevenson hastily stuffed his briefcase full of facts & figures on Texas industries and boarded a Washington plane. Air travel was a new experience to the drawling, pipe-smoking Governor, but politics was an old, familiar game. He well knew that the President had something much more pressing than industrial data to discuss: Texas' 23 electoral votes...
Finally defeated in 1942, George Norris retired to the quiet, shady house in McCook. He settled down to smoke his long-stemmed pipe, to listen to the radio, to muse over the Nebraska countryside, and to dictate his autobiography. He began to grumble that he could not "stay quiet and live...
Shirt Sleeves. There is nothing of the big business tycoon about Roy Grumman in his office. As soon as he gets there, he takes off his coat. Then he props his feet on the desk or an open drawer, puts a pipe or cigar in his mouth, and is ready to make all the Hellcats the Navy needs...
Hard Coal. The heater designed by Anthracite Industries, Inc. (not yet tested in a house) is a steel pipe 18 inches long and four to six inches in diameter (four inches for a four-room house, six inches for eight rooms). It has a feeder which pushes coal in at one end and ashes out at the other, a water jacket, a small pump which circulates the heated water rapidly to radiators. (The unit can also be adapted to hot air or steam.) In its tiny fire bed, coal burns much faster than in" previous furnaces, but so efficiently that...