Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a gigantic noise that admirers listened from the Mount of Olives, nearly a mile away. The stir that the organ is creating today is almost as awe-inspiring...
...Israelis who have money can now buy pretty much what they want -Paris silks, sail boats, U.S. breakfast cereals. On the land, output rose 23% in 1954. Per capita income is $450, highest in the Middle East. Water now flows through 65 miles of 66-in., Israeli-made pipe to irrigate 50,000 Negev desert acres planted to cotton and grain. Israel has struck oil near Beersheba. Though foreign estimates indicate that Israel will be lucky if the find cuts her present $35 million-a-year petroleum imports by much, the first well is already producing 300 barrels...
...special Civic Education Department opened 160 centers, taught rudimentary courses in "What are your rights?" and "What are your duties?" in 218 settlements; new vocational schools graduated 61,000 immigrants, including Yemenite welders who man the new $5,000,000 pipe factory at Yuval Gad, carefully tucking their side curls behind their ears before putting on their helmets. In the new immigration towns such as Acre and Jaffa, authorities mix the newcomers to speed integration. One apartment house may hold families from as many countries as there are apartments. Some Europeans complain of being put next door to "blacks...
...outstanding shares. Atlantic Refining Co., 13th largest U.S. oil company, will take over all Houston's gas and oil properties (leases on 696,638 acres of oil lands), a daily output of 17.000 bbls. of oil, another 450 million cu. ft. of natural gas, plus the Houston Pipe Line Co., which feeds natural gas into Gulf cities through a 715-mile pipeline. TIME Inc. owns 11% of Houston Oil's stock and is joint owner with Houston of the East Texas Pulp and Paper Co. TIME is negotiating to buy 100% of the East Texas Co., which operates...
Leverett House students in all McKinlock entries and K entry of Mather are getting minerals in their water but they aren't at all nutritious. The minerals which are infiltrating a broken pipe lying somewhere under the intersection of Plympton and Mill streets, are making the water unappetizingly murky, and, worse, it has slowed down to a feeble trickle. Leverett students are advised that there will be no permanent need to resort to bottled liquids for water will be taken temporarily from a different pipe until this one can be repaired. This may however, take several days. At present, despite...