Word: pump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrewd gasoline-pump man on Highway 65 put signs on two pumps?Hoover Gas and Smith Gas? same price, same grade. He then kept tab on the gallons bought at each pump. Customers bought heavily to boost their candidate. Smith...
...Gasoline Pumps. Bennett Pumps Corp. of Muskegon, Mich., joined with Service Station Equipment Co. Ltd. of Canada-a $6,500,000 proposition. Wayne Pump Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., is negotiating to buy a number of mid-western companies that make service station equipment...
...American Club members he retold how he had helped make eau potable a wide reality in France. It began at Verdun, during the War. Water was polluted; typhoid threatened the troops. He invented an automatic device to pump hypochlorite of soda into the drinking water. Two and a half to five pounds of hypochlorite liberated enough chlorine to kill the germs in one million gallons of water...
Jean Borotra ("Bounding Basque") & five other French tennismen came on the France, seeking U. S. titles. M. Borotra will also seek a U. S. market for an improved gasoline pump of his own invention...
Eloped. Mark Hanna 3d, great-grandson of the late Senator Mark Hanna ("the President-maker"); with Miss Catherine Backus, daughter of a Cleveland pump agent; from Cleveland, Ohio...