Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portent that the paunchy old Boer may soon retire as Prime Minister-brought to the surface a longtime struggle for the succession. There are two chief candidates: Transvaal Boss Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (who recently changed the spelling of his name to Strijdom because it is "more Boerlike"), and pipe-puffing Theophilus Dönges, Minister of the Interior. Strijdom (pronounced Stray-dom) is a fanatic apostle of racial segregation, who represents the extreme anti-British, anti-Negro and anti-Jewish wing of the party. He put up a hand-picked candidate for the Cape Province job. Dönges...
There is no doubt that St. James' was a clever scheme. The path he plied across the straits and through the narrow streets of Karik brought him a life of double marriage and pleasure. Maud in Gibraltar (pipe, slippers, and dumplings), Nita in Karik (wine, dancing, and midnight swims). He was, as one of his crew noted, a genius. But he was also, and this, too, is duly noted, a saint. If things ended badly, it was not his fault in trying to take too much, but in wanting too little. He wanted only a single full life, and when...
...Pied Pipe Theory...
...President John Edward Bierwirth does think he has found a way to make National grow faster by expanding outside of the liquor business. In the four years since Bierwirth became president, National has put $82 million into the chemical industry. The Tuscola petrochemical plant, owned jointly with Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., is its biggest chemical investment to date. From natural gas, the plant each year will pour out 20% of the nation's supply of synthetic alcohol, used in hundreds of products ranging from synthetic rubber and explosives to photographic film and DDT; 200 million lbs. of ethylene...
...chemical chief: "If you had money and wanted to go into the chemical business, which branch of it would you pick?" When Hulse answered "petrochemicals," Bierwirth went upstairs from his Manhattan office at 120 Broadway to see an old friend, William G. Maguire, chairman of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. Within half an hour they made a deal to set up a jointly owned company. National Petro-Chemicals Corp. They picked Tuscola, Ill. as the plant site because it is a key junction of Panhandle Eastern's pipe lines from the gas fields of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Louisiana...