Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tennis players in the U.S., this sounded like a pipe dream. Given lights, what would they use for balls? Weeks ago, the Government's production bosses had cracked down on rubber for all sporting goods...
Ostensibly, both men were appointed by the services and will be paid by the services, but all Washington knew that they were Nelson men. Haters of red tape, all-out expansionists and good cussers, they carried short lengths of lead pipe in their hip pockets, for use if the Army & Navy clung too stubbornly to old practices...
...request, Nelson went before the committee to slug it out. He curved his surprised eyebrows and his padded chins over the witness table, puffed mightily on his pipe, gently tapped a paper of matches on the table to emphasize his points. Said he flatly: "The Committee is hampering us. ... You make men afraid to come down here. . . . Companies that are willing to sacrifice ... to have men come down here are afraid for them to come...
...Nova Scotia sea captain, George Cutten was a reporter, appletree seller, pipe fitter, football coach and Baptist minister before he became a college president. When he was 18, his uncle locked him in a room and refused to let him out until he would agree to go to college. George finally decided to go to play football. At Acadia College and at Yale he was a star center, worked his way by preaching at nearby churches, He got a divinity degree and Ph.D. in psychology, writing his thesis on The Psychology of Alcoholism, which fortified him for a lifelong avocation...
Next day the note-passing continued. Finally Knudsen and Hillman worked out a wishy-washy compromise which settled nothing. The big committee was disbanded. In its place was formed a subcommittee of three management and three labor men, with towering, pipe-smoking Cyrus Ching, industrial-relations director of United States Rubber Co. and a member of the old National Defense Mediation Board, as neutral chairman. To this group 0PM gave power to "assist" in conversion...