Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even after Canadian Oilman Frank McMahon lost out in his fight to pipe natural gas from the vast Peace River Basin* of Alberta and British Columbia into the U.S. Northwest (TIME, June 28), he refused to concede defeat. Although the Federal Power Commission awarded the franchise to rival Ray Fish's Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. (see map), nature had spotted McMahon's untapped gas supplies some 400 miles closer to Seattle than the San Juan Basin along the Colorado-New Mexico border, from which Fish planned...
...piece of cobalt pipe is not impressive looking. It is only 13 in. long and 2 in. in diameter, but it is more radio active than the world's entire stock of refined radium. The pipe will be the star in a new kind of chemical laboratory that Standard Oil Development Co. is building at Linden, N.J. The lab. the first of its kind and scale in private industry (cost: $1,000,000), will use atomic radiation to promote chemical reactions. In preparation for the plant's completion, the cobalt pipe has been absorbing neutrons for 24-years...
...Naguib in the Palace of the Republic this week, and told him he was through. Once he had been President, Premier, chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, and benevolent front man for the young officers who kicked out King Farouk and made Egypt a republic. His was the reassuring, pipe-smoking symbol of a new order in an ancient, long-misgoverned land...
...fantasy. But two new books roll out the old-fashioned magic carpet. The Visionary Novels of George Macdonald (containing two stories, Lilith and Phantasies) are by a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian who deserted the pulpit for the pen, and The Fellowship of the Ring is by J.R.R. Tolkien, a pipe-smoking, 20th century Oxford philology professor. Both books are fashioned as fairy tales for adults, and fueled by strong and unorthodox imaginations...
Until the shooting, the people had never, given Gamal Abdel Nasser the affection they gave his pipe-smoking predecessor, General Naguib. Now, as Nasser's train passed through the delta cities, returning to Cairo, huge crowds spontaneously came out to cheer him. At the Cairo railway station, 100,000 people surged against police lines crying, "God bless Gamal." Besieged by admirers reaching out to embrace him, the Premier needed two hours to make what was ordinarily a ten-minute drive to his office. Eight wild shots had served him well...