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Last week Phillips Petroleum Co. ordered from Republic Steel Corp. 100,000,000 lb. of steel pipe for an 800-mi. pipe line extending from Borger, Tex., to Kansas City and St. Louis. Importance of this line lay not so much in its length as in its function as a carrier of gasoline, not of crude oil. Petroleum companies have hitherto piped crude oil to refineries, but have shipped gasoline almost exclusively by rail and tanker. Other oil companies planning gasoline pipe lines include Barnsdall Corp., which will run a gasoline line from its Muskogee, Okla., refinery to Milwaukee...
...showed freight car loadings down 9%, commodity prices down 6%, automobile production down 31%, pig iron production down 13%. Among the comparatively few increases were commercial failures, up 9%. Yet last week one young industry prospered and expanded, cheered by its demands an old industry. For when Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. announced that it would build a 1,250-mi. natural gas pipe line from the Texas Panhandle to Indianapolis, it evidenced not only increasing activity in the natural gas field but also helped to stabilize a sagging steel production through huge orders for steel pipe...
...motives behind these offers are many. Columbia Gas & Electric, largest U. S. producer of natural gas, plans to pipe gas to the Atlantic seaboard; a tie-up with UGI and Consolidated Gas of New York would be beneficial to all. Inclusion of Standard Oil of New Jersey's natural gas projects in this group is also mentioned. To secure these ends, United Corp. has been buying Consolidated Gas of New York in the open market, is reported anxious to add to its large holdings of Public Service of New Jersey (which UGI also has). Other companies in the Morgan...
...Birds, Ill., Ernestine Stevenson, 21 months, daughter of Ernest Stevenson, school teacher, fell into a cold well, bobbed to the surface, clutched the iron suction pipe until her father, summoned, crawled down to fetch...
...disc on the M. I. T. instrument was keyed to a three-octave board, reproduced deep pipe organ notes. Unlike Leon Sergeievitch Theremin's "ether music" box (TIME, Sept. 30), Hardy & Brown's development does not slide from one note to another, slurring the intervening ones...