Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed, his horn-rimmed glasses forever sliding down his nose; Arkansas' Senator McClellan. rough and ready, if sometimes confused, the committee's angry man; Senator Mundt, jowls aquiver, chugging at his pipe; Counsel Ray Jenkins, with his formidable scowl and unrelenting legalistic precision...
...word decision last week, the Federal Power Commission made its most important natural-gas ruling in ten years. It changed the method for calculating the value of any gas a pipeline company itself produces. In a case brought by Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., biggest in the U.S., FPC ruled that rates will no longer be based on how much money the pipeline company spent trying to find gas. Instead, rates will now be based on the price natural gas is bringing on the market...
...cylindrical stock of rings behind the end of the tailpipe. In normal flight, the gases pass through the center of the rings. When the pilot wants to stop quickly on landing, he opens a valve, and a blast of air from the engine's compressor shoots down a pipe running through the tailpipe and is released at about right angles into the center of the stream of gases. This diverts the gases into an expanding cone and makes them hit the rings, which are shaped to catch them and reverse their direction. Aerojet says that its device, which...
Jitney Beginning. Orville Caesar, a mechanic turned executive, still likes to tinker with machinery in his home workshop in Harrington, Ill. He invented the Tropic-Aire hot-water heater to replace the dangerous and smelly exhaust-pipe system for heating buses, saw it become the standard for passenger cars. The son of a Swedish blacksmith, Caesar went to work in an auto-repair shop in his teens, later started a small bus service. In 1925 he joined forces with the late Eric Wickman, who had been building up a bus system in Minnesota since 1914, when he started with...
...definite cleavage seems to be taking place between the mentality of a public, and a Congress, which was nursed on tales of Columbus, Edison, the Wright brothers, etc., and the mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship...