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...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...The AK-47, and the M16, the American assault rifle. But I’ve never really wanted to collect guns.”...
...Surrealism started as a literary movement, but its popular legacy is a visual one, dominated by images of floppy timepieces and tobacco pipes that insist they are something else....
...Compared with cast iron, steel was lighter and more stable....
...That night, his mother found him taking the drug in the family bathroom, while a search of his coat turned up a crack pipe....
...About 75,000 people travelled on it and, despite one stretch being built underground (out of cast iron), it never took off....
...“Ash from round here is brown; the iron in the sandstone around Exeter seems to tint it red. The whitest is the American stuff.”...
...Deal supporters also hailed the prospect of UIL taking on environmental clean-up liabilities that could eventually cost hundreds of millions of dollars and more quickly upgrade PGW’s aged cast iron pipe...
...They’re like the chairman of a company who is thrilled to see his logo on top of a building,” he says....
...Gober recently refabricated them in iron and enamel at a bathroom-fixture company, because the aeroplane paint he used 22 years ago proved too weak for prolonged submersion in water....
...As he talked, we walked beside cast-iron pipes, imported more than 300 years ago and carried up the mountain to convey fresh water to towns where it was needed....
...These include Vale of Brazil, London-listed Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Anglo American, as well as Japanese trading companies such as Mitsui & Co....
...cinema, packed with arresting images and vivid recollections from cast and crew....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...www.lyonandturnbull.com v Cast-iron benches American A pair of mid-to-late 19th century cast-iron garden benches, which are attributed to the Vulcan Iron Works, New Boston, Illinois....
...The alluminium shade sits elegantly on a cast iron beam, the visible thread makes for a pleasing junction with the clamp and even the turning of the cord looks purposeful....
...Now the company’s inventory boasts a staggering 5,500 moulds and models including decorative bookends, all traditionally cast in sand and hand finished. €222. www.werkstaette-carlauboeck.at 2 Folded square...
...When Picasso’s “Boy with a Pipe” fetched a record $104m (£53m, €79m) at a Sotheby’s New York auction in 2004, it was the talk of the town....
...Severstal also makes a lot of high quality pipes and tube. We make only about 300,000 tonnes a year of semi-finished steel [raw steel that has to be processed by other companies]....
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