Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stove and a big pot] is better. Rain makes more noise on the roof, but it doesn't come in. It's true we don't eat so much meat as we did, but there are other things I never dreamed of. Look at that little pipe by the road there. Water comes if you turn the top piece...
Under the Dove. Ironically, Cyrus Ching, Washington's hulking, pipe-smoking dove of peace, on leave from his Federal Mediator job, had to preside over the blowup. In his new, uneasy seat of chairman of WSB, Ching had announced the wage freeze, hastening to add that it was only temporary; some formula for thawing it out would soon be devised. His tripartite board had set to work. They were still working last week when Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston ordered them to reach a decision by week...
Wednesday, the Smoker Committee held a pipe-smoking contest (above) in the Union. Two pipes and a can of tobacco were given for prizes...
...Hole. Coal will soon be transported by pipeline by the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. The company will spend $550,000 on a twelve-inch, three-mile experimental pipeline near Cadiz, Ohio. The coal will be crushed fine, mixed with water to form a mudlike "slurry," and pumped through the pipe. At the end, the coal will be dried...
...standardizing the industry's crazy quilt of odd sizes of materials. ¶ Foundations required for one-story houses are far in excess of any real need. ¶ Practically every small house is structurally overdesigned (i.e., wastes lumber). ¶ Standard, prefabricated plumbing assemblies could save millions of pounds of pipe and millions of man-hours now wasted piecing together special assemblies. ¶ Ceiling heights and sill heights could be further standardized so that lumber and wallboard producers could supply materials precut to fit. ¶ Millions of pounds of copper wiring, steel pipe and cement are wasted by excessive street widths...