Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialist Ten Commandments. First job of the incoming Chamber last week was to elect as its President (Speaker) huge, pipe-sucking Edouard Herriot, the perpetual Mayor of Lyons who year after year keeps reminding Frenchmen that they ought to pay their War debts to the U. S.- Next the new Cabinet presented itself amid deafening cheers from the Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists. Then to his one remaining foot leaped war veteran Deputy Xavier Vallat. "This is the first time," he cried, "that our old Gallo-Roman country of France will be governed...
Senator Vandenberg. who killed the original canal appropriation almost singlehanded, once more leaped to the attack. "We are back again," roared the Michigan GOPossibility, "boondoggling on 'Quoddy Bay and pipe-dreaming on the phantom Florida Canal. Most of us thought, or perhaps hoped would be a better word, that we were through with this quarter-billion-dollar extravaganza when Congress settled with it the last time...
...Minn. Startled citizens and American Legionaries got their first look at a huge, brooding Indian, towering in 55 tons of cream-white Mexican onyx 36 feet above a slowly rotating pedestal in the black marble concourse of St. Paul's new City Hall. One great hand held the Pipe of Peace. The other was raised in a vaguely benedictory gesture over some little chiefs from whose council fire the mighty figure seemed to rise...
...rise of Philip Morris dates from 1931, when Messrs. Ellis and McKitterick, with some friends, got control of Philip Morris and Continental Tobacco Co. When they took stock of the business, they found themselves with various pipe tobaccos, expiring luxury cigarets and the two volume brands, Paul Jones (10?) and Marlboro (20?). Marlboro had always done well, was earning dividends for the whole company. But its 500,000,000-per-year sales were about the top for a 2O? brand. In Paul Jones there was little money at 10?. Nevertheless, Paul Jones and other 10? brands had scared...
...well is really only a matter of form and of curiosity, because when the new pump pumps water it will pump city water. A pipe-ditch stretching from the pit is already flirting with a fire-hydrant nearby...