Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with lung cancer, only half of one percent were nonsmokers; 25% were "heavy smokers" (25 or more cigarettes a day, or the equivalent in pipe tobacco, for ten years or longer). Of the male non-cancer patients, 4½% were non-smokers and only 13½% were heavy smokers. The death rate from lung cancer among non-smokers aged 45-64 was negligible; among heavy smokers it ran from 6% to 10% for the same age span. There was a puzzling contrast in the figures for women: among them, 37% of lung-cancer patients were nonsmokers...
...there was scarcely a sound from Ohio, where Robert A. Taft was sitting out the interregnum. After the last Cabinet post was filled, Senator Taft had something to say. Having slept soundly on his indignation, he wrote out next morning a statement denouncing the appointment of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters' President Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor. It was "incredible," said Taft, that the President-elect should appoint a man who "has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought General Eisenhower's election and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
...Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, its famous strains sometimes soaring, sometimes buzzing like bumblebees in a sewer pipe...
Career: Like the A.F.L.'s new boss (see Labor), he got his start in union politics as a business agent for the Plumbers & Pipe Fitters (with Chicago's Local 597, the union's largest). He resigned in 1933, after twelve years, to take an appointment from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner as state director of labor. During the next, eight years, he successfully pushed through legislation setting up unemployment compensation, a state employment service, a state conciliation & mediation service. In 1941, he resigned, moved to Washington to become secretary-treasurer of the union (225,000 members...
Algonquin sniffed at the suit, went right ahead laying its pipe. Last April it got a shock. Philadelphia's U.S. circuit court ruled that FPC had, indeed, injured Northeastern, ordered its plea for the whole market heard. Algonquin appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and went on building. But last October the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the appeal. Algonquin finally woke up to the realization that it had spent $40 million on a pipeline which it had no legal right to use. It begged FPC for a temporary "emergency" permit to finish the line...