They had managed to scrounge enough coal and coke to keep the stoves roaring away, with the stovepipes red-hot halfway up. |
We awake betimes to the rattle of the scrubbing brush and the sharp overthrow of stovepipes. |
It is no longer viable to reinvent the wheel, create stovepipes or work apart from other agencies and jurisdictions. |
And since the collection systems and analysts all remained static, the stovepipes could remain unchanged for decades. |
Unlike smokestacks and stovepipes, they don't have an opening at the top. |
These and many other mergers cut across stovepipes no longer relevant to the Information Age and the post-cold-war world. |