Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pipes of Peace. Next day, representatives of two groups which had favored Democrat Adlai Stevenson during the campaign came in to smoke the peace pipe. First in were ten C.I.O. leaders; when the hour-long talk was over, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey cormmended Ike for a "very intelligent discussion" of the Taft-Hartley Act, then added with conscious irony that ever since its establishment the C.I.O. had enjoyed good relations with the occupant of the White House and that it hoped to continue on the same footing. (Only occupants of the White House since the C.I.O.'s birth...
...this week Ike had rounded out his full Cabinet. The three final appointments: Michigan's Arthur Summerfield, chairman of the "Republican National Committee, to be Postmaster General; Boston's Sinclair Weeks, Republican finance chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce; President Martin Durkin of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union to be Secretary of Labor (see THE NEW ADMINISTRATION...
MARTIN P. DURKIN, 58, president of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters...
...drillers had driven a three-cone rotary rock-bit deeper & deeper into the earth of Osborn's farm. The rig's platform throbbed with the clanking rumble of a diesel engine spinning the drill. As the drill bit down into the earth, new lengths of 60-ft. pipe were threaded on to join the mile-and-a-half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped. Then, when all was ready...
...holes have been dug between Linden and Holyoke Streets, most of them in front of Claverly Hall. The workmen are tightening joints on a 24 inch gas pipe, which sprung a leak several weeks ago and began to disturb residents of Claverly. A minute trickle of gas was escaping from the feed line into the basement of the dormitory through a conduit...