Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became a leading figure in the colony's criminal courts, winning acquittals for his clients and some $112,000 a year for himself. Bored with the businessman's Progressive Party, he switched to the Singapore Labor Party, vaguely socialistic and violently anticolonial. A flamboyant, pipe-smoking, bush-shirted political campaigner, he posed as the prophet of merdeka...
Arrogant Closure. The issue that shook the Liberals was the government's measure to advance up to $80 million to the U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canada (TIME, May 21). Not only was the loan itself unpopular, because of growing Canadian concern about U.S. investors' control of national resources, but the heavy-handed way in which the Liberals attempted to ram the measure through Parliament stirred up the entire country. As soon as Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe introduced it to Parliament, he immediately announced...
Hawks Through Peepholes. One day last week, Burke warmly greeted a visitor to his office. He sat behind his small desk, puffed on his battered pipe, and, while Filipino stewards served coffee, talked easily. The gentle, almost ingenuous, fagade was deceptive: watching like hawks from behind one-way peepholes at each end of the office were Burke's aides. They knew that they would soon be struck by a blizzard of memos, ideas and questions, all growing out of Burke's seemingly casual conversation. It is the same with every conversation Burke...
Another angry debate broke out in Ottawa last week on the issue of U.S. investment in Canada (TIME, April 30). It was touched off by a government measure, introduced in Parliament, to lend up to $80 million to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd., a company more than 80% owned and controlled by U.S. gas and oil interests headed by Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison. The loan is to be used to build the first leg (Alberta to Winnipeg) of a long-delayed transcontinental natural-gas pipeline...
...government of giving too much leeway to U.S. investors, reacted angrily to the proposal to lend tax funds to a U.S.-controlled firm. Both parties immediately launched a filibuster to delay the bill. The government's main reason for backing the U.S. firm is that Trans-Canada has pipe and equipment on hand to begin work immediately. A national election is expected next year, and the Canadian public, the Liberals believe, is more interested in seeing the long-stalled pipeline built than in worrying about the nationality of the builders...