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Word: pipings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road selling steel instead of just taking orders." The reason is that Connecticut Valley manufacturers are stocked up with enough steel to last them up to six months; even when the strike came, no rush for steel developed. Texas oilmen have no trouble finding all the pipe they want; Detroit's auto industry is so well stocked that steel sheets are selling at discounts, and expensive "conversion" steel (i.e., metal produced at one plant and converted into shapes at another) has disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Where's the Shortage? | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Heads were popping out of windows all over Dunster House last Sunday afternoon. Like cobras to a charmer's pipe, Dunster men were responding to the sound of a chorus of familiar male voices. In the courtyard, ringed by students, their dates, and passersby from Memorial Drive were the Dunster Dunces, giving an impromptu concert. It so happened that the Dunces had suddenly discovered themselves sitting at the same table at lunch that after-noon. Naturally enough, they started to sing. After dessert, they filed out of the Dining Hall, still singing, and held forth in the Courtyard...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Dunster Dunces---Charms to Soothe the Savage | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

...human relations . . . reduces to two pages what we try to say in somewhat greater detail in several months of our courses in personnel management . . . We find some students . . . who feel (usually on the basis of their limited and somewhat unhappy experience) that all this talk is merely an academic pipe dream with little practical application in industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...hole 3 to 5 ft. deep and fits in the plastic liner, which holds more than 10,000 gallons of water. An inflatable bumper ($75 extra), fastened to the top of the liner, prevents water from splashing out of the pool. The pool can be emptied by either a pipe outlet system or a sump pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Movie-theater owners were hoping they had found one solution to the problem of their sluggish box offices. Why not pipe in big sports events by means of private coaxial cables? Fans would have to pay to see the events, either at the point of origin, or at specific movie houses. Some exhibitors tried the scheme out last year (TIME, June 25). Last week the results were in: movies will probably have to be better than ever, without benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Total Loss | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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