Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...River empties into Lake Erie's western end, was seriously threatened by a water shortage when the wind blew the river water out into the lake in such volume that the river level fell nine and one half feet, within inches of the bottoms of Toledo's pump intakes...
...mild case of paranoia. A brilliant British scientist, he had many ideas, carried few of them through to solid achievement. He invented a wheel barometer, conceived the idea of using a pendulum as a measure of gravity, helped famed Robert ("Boyle's Law") Boyle make his air pump. He clearly conceived the motion of heavenly bodies as a mechanical problem, but his conception was almost obliterated in the glory of Isaac Newton's formulation of the gravity laws. He was jealous of Newton, made violent attacks on him, resented all his life the fact that Newton...
...compressing air more efficiently and cheaply than ever before. In practice, the compression of air generates heat which must be drawn off by water jackets. In the Jones device, there are no water jackets. The heat of the compressed air is removed by circulating oil and returned to the pump where it furnishes accessory driving energy. The same principle, Mr. Jones declared last week, could be used to increase the efficiency of superchargers on airplane engines. He has applied for a patent...
...Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors pump-priming within limits, answered by a letter which he gave to the press, lecturing Critic Byrd and the nation on "the pertinent facts" about the Budget, Taxes, Debt...
That building is approaching a boom largely because the Government is underwriting mortgages up to 90% no one could deny. Colonel Ayres warned: "The most urgent economic problem that we face is that of making next year the transition from this pump-priming recovery over into a long-term recovery carried forward by business instead of one pushed along by Government. . . . Our people have quite generally become convinced that Government is primarily responsible for business activity. It is as futile for us to believe that we can spend ourselves rich as for us to suppose that a man can drink...