Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years and fifteen billion dollars ago Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the policy of spending the Nation out of depression. To raise submerged industrial indices and put 12,000,000 men to work, the pump of national finance was primed with Government money. Spending theoreticians like the Federal Reserve's Marriner Eccles would have liked to see the full force of the spending concentrated on industry rather than scattered between producers and consumers and an important Eccles corollary would have been a temporary lifting of the tax burden to help business help itself (see p. 18). At any rate...
Last week the U. S. Government did the following for and to U. S. Business: C. Contemplated resuming "pump-priming" with expenditure of as much as $4,250,000,000 to pull the nation out of depression doldrums...
Yellow Season: a big canvas painted in a monotone of mustard yellow with twiggy lines here and there, the shape of a pump indicated, some clothes on a line, gradually more lines taking shape as backyard impedimenta, hints of flowers, and finally a perspective of May sunshine up a hill with slashes of blue sky over...
...recognized) indoor record by one second. Seventy minutes later he attempted something more difficult. He entered the 600-yard race, less than half his usual distance. The others made a sprinting start. He elected to start standing up, and was promptly left behind. Then his legs began to pump and he pulled up on the leaders. With a terrific sprint he crossed the line in 1 min., 11.3 sec., tying the world's record. It did him no good. He was third in the race. The winner, James Bruinel Herbert, New York University sophomore...
...pump, it will be remembered, was put out of action, its water turned off and spigot removed on November...