Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late yesterday, Hall continued to stick by his original decision not to pipe the Columbia-Princeton game to the Philadelphia area. This decision will probably stand...
...stop smoking is to stop smoking, says Scottish Doctor Lennox Johnston. The procedure, he insists, is neither as simple nor as simple-minded as it sounds. The craving for tobacco must be understood and the dangers of nicotine appreciated before mere will power can separate a man from his pipe or his cigarettes. But it can be done. In the latest issue of the British medical journal Lancet, Johnston, a reformed smoker, tells...
Something Wrong. In Chicago, Robert Whitfield and Douglas Henderson painted a truck yellow to look like a city vehicle, loaded two tons of city-owned steel pipe in a municipal construction yard until detectives became suspicious "because they were working so hard...
...able to get about on crutches, and took a wartime desk job in Washington, where he helped map postwar plans for the Petroleum Industry War Council. When the Government-built Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines were declared surplus property at war's end, Ryan formed U.S. Pipe Line to bid on them. He lost out to a higher bid from Texas Eastern Transmission, which now uses them for natural gas. But Ryan was convinced that there was still a big need for a transcontinental line, and decided to build...
Over the Hurdles. To help design the line, he got the world's pipeline king, 68-year-old Burt Hull, who built both the Inches and Trans-Arabian's 1,068-mile desert pipeline, "Tapline" (TIME, Nov. 20, 1950). He brought in as president of U.S. Pipe Line Jersey Standard's ex-vice president Robert Haslam. Months were spent in drawing the complex plans, months more in getting O.K.s from Justice, the National Production Authority, Petroleum Administration for Defense and all the Government bureaus involved. With that approval last week, durable Paul Ryan has hurdled...