Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aeronautical engineers have long experimented with the two-cycle engine for airplanes. In such an engine the four strokes of the pistons-1) intake, 2) compression, 3) explosion, 4) exhaust- are reduced to 1) compression 2) explosion. Fuel is forced into and out of the cylinders by a pump. Complex lubrication is dispensed with by mixing oil with the gasoline. That advantage largely accounted for the failure of most experiments to date: the burned oil left heavy carbon deposits. Last week a new, light two-cycle engine was described by Dick Roberts, plump aviation editor of the Toledo Blade...
...last month Ernest Davis, water department foreman of St. Charles, Ill., saw in the corner of the municipal pump-house a 10-in. garter snake entangled in a spider web. How the snake got in its predicament neither Foreman Davis nor anyone else knew. Next day Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...
...Hoover as he spoke these words last week in the auditorium of the new Department of Commerce building sat some 300 of the country's foremost bankers, industrialists and businessmen. Most of them were members of the regional committees set up in the twelve Federal Reserve districts to help pump new bank credit into deflated business. Others were important guests who had also been summoned to Washington to participate in one of the most impressive economic conferences ever held in the capital...
...year. To the Broad Street office of Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought at $5.50 for the Guild on a "hot tip" in 1929. Last autumn when the Guild's exchequer was lower than usual and the stock was quoted...
From Montreal last week the Groenland-Wal flew to Ottawa, headed toward Detroit. She arrived there at the end of a towrope after being forced down on Lake St. Clair by a broken pump. After visiting Chicago, the ship's next destination was the Pacific Coast. Despite some-what half-hearted denials by Capt. von Gronau, it appeared certain that he would carry on along the approximate route flown last year by the Lindberghs from Alaska to Siberia, the Kuvile Islands, Tokyo, that he would continue around the world to home...