Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Inches. The Federal Power Commission last week granted permission to the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to pipe Texas natural gas to Philadelphia and the Appalachian region through the wartime Big and Little Big Inch pipelines. Tetco bought the pipelines last February (TIME, Feb. 24) for $143 million, conditional on FPC permission. Coal-hauling railroads and John L. Lewis' coal miners tried to block the piping...
...Picasso any more than they liked the last one. His mangled women and monsters of the war years had vanished like a nightmare. The nine new paintings were bright still lifes done with a comic strip's economy of line and color, and airy pastoral scenes with pipe-playing centaurs, a goddess and dancing goats. Picasso had painted his new pictures on the scene, behind locked doors (TIME, Jan. 13). The castle's old guide, Pierre, used to tell tourists that there was "a crazy artist" in the studio, but now Pierre spends his evenings reading...
Those poor souls whose work-a-day lives are punctuated by the pipe-dream of a home in Pennsylvania's Bucks County are due for a rude awakening. Long fabled as the city dweller's Valhalla, a land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
Early this year, a man walked into the Detroit offices of the Kresge Co.'s variety chain. He introduced himself to the merchandising manager, then took out a small pipe no bigger than a soda straw and quickly blew a glasslike bubble as big as a watermelon. Then he detached it and handed it to the merchandising manager. Bubble in hand, the manager hastily called a meeting of Kresge's entire sales department to consider this wonderful...
...last week, not only Kresge's but Woolworth's and scores of other dime and department stores were selling thousands of 29? and 49? packets, consisting of a pipe and a collapsible tube filled with a plastic called "Bub-O-Loon." In thousands of homes, offices and nightclubs, Americans were huffing & puffing into their hollow sticks...