Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word report on their 40,000-mile travels was tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University's owlish, gadabout Carl Ackerman, the Atlanta Constitution's nervous, nimble Editor Ralph McGill. Outstanding findings...
...pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax has overrated Cigar Consumer Winston Churchill [TIME, May 21]. Winnie may be the British Empire's No. 1 cigar smoker, but he cannot smoke 54 extra-large, especially made cigars in 18 hours out of every 24. It takes most cigar smokers approximately 30 minutes to smoke enjoyably a normal-sized, popular-brand cigar...
Known officially as Fido (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation), the system that kept 15 British fields active during last winter's bitterest fighting consists of an installation of horizontal pipes laid parallel to each side of a landing strip. Gasoline is forced through and out of the perforated pipes with tremendous force. When ignited (by men running alongside the pipes with torches), a wall of flame roars from the jets with the noise and smoke of a forest fire. The intense heat first vaporizes the fuel in the upper (feeder) pipe, causing the smoke to subside, then burns...
...house. But most expenditures would be in repairs, and most repairs would require lumber - which is shorter than ever. (The U.S. construction industry was also told that it could begin preliminary earth moving operations for new projects without WPB authorization - if no lumber or other construction materials except drainage pipe were required...
Soft Peace. In Chicago, Ignatz Chabich admitted that he had been arguing with one John Borman about the Russian-Polish situation, but argued against charges of assault: "I hit him with the soft end of an iron pipe." Old Hand. In Newnan, Ga., the Beavers Packing Co. advertised for an experienced pork cutter and killing-floor foreman, promptly got a reply from a Mr. Goebels of Berlin (Georgia...