Word: piping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom for a revolutionary seapower plant. A shoreward section of the pipe had been successfully laid the fortnight before (TIME, June...
...Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...
...Children and Educational Publicity. Numerous (313) were the meetings, numerous (471) the speakers. So much was there to hear that the Conference appointed a general consultant, Alexander "Uncle Alec") Johnson of Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1897 president of the Conference, 1890-93 general secretary. Puffing on his pipe "Uncle Alec" sat at a desk in the Hotel Statler and told bewildered conferees how to get the most good out of the Conference, what persons to see, what meetings to attend...
Continental Construction Co. and Natural Gas Co. of America were last week formed, the first to build, the second to finance, the new natural gas line from Texas Panhandle to Chicago (1,000 miles of 24-inch high pressure main line pipe; additional 1,000 miles of auxiliary line; cost at more than $100,000,000; construction under direction of Henry L. Doherty & Co.). The new line is backed by oil & gas interests (Mr. Doherty's Cities Service, the Insull companies, Standard of New Jersey, Texas Corp., Skelly Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Columbian Carbon) with assets of more than...
Rich and patient, Inventor Claude was not discouraged a few months ago when heavy seas crumpled the pipe he was sinking to fetch his cold water to the surface. He set to lowering another pipe. His last week's despatch to his colleagues said that this pipe was now laid...