Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near Joliet, Ill. one afternoon last week, a group of oilmen and Chicago city officials assembled around a 30-in. pipe. While the state flags of Texas and Illinois fluttered in the breeze, the wheel of a big control valve was turned. There was a rearing whoosh, and gas from Texas began to flow to Chicago through a new 1,417-mile pipeline...
...morning last week, Nick arose in his Villanova dormitory, got a length of telephone wire and went down into the basement. There he noosed one end of the wire around his neck, got up on an old wash basin, tied the other end of the wire around a ceiling pipe. Then he jumped. Some time between then and noon, when a team trainer found him, the wire broke under the strain. By then, it was too late for Nick Liotta...
...Long Way Home. In Miami, a runaway bulldozer plowed driverless across a block-long field, downed five trees and smashed 20 feet of wire fence at Carl Gulbrandsen's home; smashed 15 yards of fence, ripped up 30 feet of water pipe, downed five clothesline poles and several grapefruit and apples trees at Mrs. Goldie Spur's home; crashed through Frank Nowell's chicken house before coming to a halt in his garage...
John T. Flynn's latest book is an appropriate conclusion to the blindly partisan Congressional Investigations of our Asian policy. He whips up the theory that we "sold out" Asia China to the Reds, adds a pinch of pipe-dream, and seasons the dish with his own violent prejudices. The resulting book offers two hundred pages of emotional mincemeat...
...studio we were met by five "executives" whose duty it was to see that the four guests would understand what was expected of them. "I wouldn't want you people to be embarrassed," a pipe-smoking man who introduced himself as Bo Bernstein said. Mr. Bernstein, it turned out, represented the advertising agency that was running the show. This connection with the moneyed interests of the program made him the head man. Bernstein pointed out a colleague, named Harvey Cushing, who explained our part to us. "Nothing to it," he said, "all we want you to do this half hour...