Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week he announced that his Maxim Silencer Co., of which he is president and his only son Hiram Hamilton is chief engineer and whose factory is in Asylum Street, Hartford, will-besides continuing to make silencers for guns, motor exhausts, safety valves, air releases, in fact every kind of pipe which emits a gas-offer a consulting service in noise abatement. Chief abater will be "Dr. Shush," the Maxim trademark character, who looks like a caricature of Hiram Percy Maxim's uncle, the late explosive-making Hudson Maxim (1853-1927). But "Dr. Shush" is really Hiram Percy Maxim, noise...
...disability from malaria. After the Armistice he and his wife went to live on Capri, still spend most of their time there. A pianist (his wife is a concert singer), Author Young also composes, has written music for the Songs of Robert Bridges. Mild-mannered, quiet, spare, with a pipe usually in position above an unaggressive chin, Francis Brett Young looks his part: a quite successful, quite good English author. Other books: The Crescent Moon, My Brother Jonathan, The Redlakes...
...Grandy Budlong, rector of Christ Church, Greenwich (reputedly richest U. S. parish), appointed last autumn to be Bishop Coadjutor of Connecticut (TIME, Sept. 21). Consecrator: Presiding Bishop Perry, assisted by nine prelates, among whom was Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, who said in the consecration sermon: "We literally pipe to the people, but they do not dance. . . . Our ministry is all too often identified with a type that represents culture and wealth...
...Standard more than 50% of the Lycoming United Natural Gas Corp., which is the holding company for operating units in the Tioga territory. Last week, accompanying the announcement of the new directors, Columbia said that Standard had acquired a 30% interest in Columbia's new Kentucky-Pennsylvania pipe line network, designed to supply Washington, D. C. and other Atlantic seaboard cities from Newark to Richmond...
...producing acres extending from Lake Erie to southern Kentucky. Columbia is also negotiating with Samuel Insull for joint action in supplying mid-western cities now served by the Middle West Utilities (Insull) Co. A Standard-Insull combination already exists in the famed Amarillo-to-Chicago pipe line. Thus the gas industry briskly follows the co-operative policy which became conspicuous as long ago as July 1930, when United Corp. acquired a 25% interest in Columbia and Columbia's Philip Green Gossler became a United Corp. director just as Mr. Carlisle has now joined the directorate of the Gossler company...