Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy on the private basis that "the Shah is my personal friend." The result was a new concession for Anglo-Persian running until 1993, but His Majesty squeezed down the area under lease to Anglo-Persian by more than half and while leaving Anglo-Persian in possession of its pipe lines deprived the British of exclusive Persian oil pipe-line rights (TIME, May 15, 1933). Observed a cynical Soviet diplomat well posted on Sir John Cadman's negotiations: "Persia is fundamentally sound. They will sell you the country six times over, but that makes no difference. They are always...
...championship belt showing the history of wrestling in twelve plaques. Son of a Greek olive picker, Champion Londos was born near Athens in 1898. He got his nickname in 1915 from a San Francisco sportswriter friend who admired Jack London. He takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe, speaks good English in a squeaky tenor...
...runners got a bad scare when the commission appointed as Mr. Parker's successor able, hard-boiled Capt. E. N. Stanley who recently drafted pipe line regulations for the Commission which oil men believe will be a major step toward stopping the "hot oil" flow...
Twenty-five years ago the U. S. Army Air Corps consisted of one plane and one pilot. He was a keen-eyed, pipe-smoking bantam named Lieut. Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois. Up from the ranks of infantry, he joined the Signal Corps in 1908, learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright...
...year ago to perform in Albert Hall. Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there is no such place as Lost Hope Hollow, that Jilson Setters' real name is William Day. never much...