Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...
...much longer. So long as sacrifices were not being demanded of everybody, the Administration was finding it hard to demand them of anybody. Top men in industry and the professions had been turning down Government posts; no automaker wanted to abandon his market or toe a price line if no one else had to. And so it went...
...Shut off the last trickle of goods to Red China and Manchuria, forcing some already-loaded ships to discharge cargo. The order was specifically worded to catch four ships now at sea, including the Isbrandtsen line's Flying Clipper, reported heading for Tientsin with a cargo of steel, tin plate and pipe...
...little later the motel telephone rang; the consulate was on the line advising the Earl to get married. A little later, minus collar & tie, the Earl hurried Mildred and two hastily aroused witnesses into the home of Justice of the Peace Delbert Bresemann. The J.P. performed what he proudly described as a "candlelight office wedding...
...trains remain the same; but this year's line of new accessories is disappointing. The best of the new developments is a cattle car that, at the press of a button, opens its doors and ejects a load of steers into a waiting corral...