Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to those direct taxes on gasoline in Mississippi, distributors must pay license fees up to $250, depending upon the size of their storage tanks, and retail gasoline dealers pay license fees up to $15 annually for each pump, the amount depending upon the size of the municipality...
...simple apparatus for vacuum distillation includes a cylinder set squarely within another cylinder like an arm in a sleeve. A heating device keeps the inner cylinder warm. The outer cylinder remains at room temperature or may be cooled. A vacuum pump exhausts air from the space between the two cylinders. When the vacuum has been created, the liquid to be distilled flows down over the surface of the warm inner cylinder. As the liquid flows, molecules of vitamin A or D or other light substances pop off, jump the inter-cylinder gap, condense on the inner wall of the bigger...
...Roosevelt's real purposes, despite the good intentions toward economy he expressed. Cornerstone of New Deal fiscal policy has been the doctrine of spending expounded to the President in 1934 by British Economist John Maynard Keynes: When times are hard the Government should cushion depression and prime the pump of recovery by spending more than it collects in taxes; when times are good it should put a brake on inflation by collecting more than it spends. Now inflation is under way and the President, though talking economy, is still waiting for revenue to catch up to spending...
...Knight or future Knight can readily see that the serious and comic slants of our business are tied together so closely that we cannot tell at times which is serious and which is fun." Grand Knight Ellis gave all credit for the founding of his organization to Chief Pump Knight E. Chat Shanks, NAPR's executive secretary who makes his headquarters in Milwaukee's Republican Hotel, and to Brass Nozzle Knight Wilmer...
Nebulous though their plans are at present, the Knights of the Hose will probably manage entertainment at the monster NAPR annual conventions. "Oil Conventions are pretty rough as a rule but our boys are different." said Chief Pump Knight Shanks last week. "The boys have to relax sometimes." Plans for fun at the convention in Rochester, N. Y. next autumn will be shaped by the Grand Knights of the Hose's governing body, the Free Privy Council...