Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service or defense work, who are yet out of touch with potential jobs. There are a lot of vacancies occasioned by men who have left the government for the Army or Navy, and bright Harvard lads who can't get into the armed forces should have some sort of pipe-line to Washington. It might even be worthwhile to keep a representative of the Bureau at the capital, since it is functioning for graduates as well as for students. As things now stand, there is too little centralization. It is still the safest bet to make a trip to Washington...
APPRECIATE THOUGHTS GAS RATIONING. SOLUTION DUE SHORTLY TRANSPORTATION PIPE LINES...
...present specifications, which insist that the trucks be practically ready to roll. Boxes containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers regularly shipped CKD to Australia before the war; on Lend-Lease shipments, they are doing it now. Springs are compressed, wheels and fenders nested, frames squeezed and stacked. Each shipment is a folded embryo of trucks...
...keep them busy from 9 a.m. to midnight, six or seven days a week. Their offices are prissy chambers on the second floor of the old State Department rookery; each has high ceilings, gold-velvet draperies withering around the windows, a fireplace of sickly chocolate marble, festoons of exposed pipe and wiring. Among this lavender & old lace sit the two streamlined gogetters...
Trussed up like a shoat bound for market, a Curtiss Kittihawk fighter plane spewed bullets into a wood and earth bunker at Buffalo. In the Army's first public demonstration of warplane firepower since Pearl Harbor, the gas-pipe-like guns threw more than 387 Ib. of lead and armor-piercing steel per minute, clattering like a dozen riveting hammers inside a caisson...