Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rearmament does not necessarily entail new taxes. Since the U. S. is still running whopping deficits, the implication was that Rearmament must replace some other form of spending, but the President went on to say that military spending is to be solely for military purposes, and not for pump-priming or re-employment...
What put Corcoran, Hopkins & Co. into the armament business was a chance to hitch New Deal pump-priming to National Defense. In the democratic jitters after Munich they saw a glittering opportunity to butter up and stimulate heavy industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would...
...that Government should spend as the tide of private industry ebbs, and vice versa. Last week Chair-man Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board told Manhattan bankers that since private industry is still not ready to take up the burden the Government has no choice but to continue pump-priming...
Taking the affirmative side, the Crimson lineup, consisting of F. Welch Peel '39, Malcom Wilkey '40, and Thomas Carroll '42, convinced the judges that government pump-priming was unsatisfactory...
...Drinker brothers idea was to use a suction pump to expand a paralytic's chest. Emerson made several improvements; he introduced bellows instead of a suction pump, a much quieter motor, and several conveniences for both nurse and patient...