Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mechanical pumps have a certain limit beyond which they cannot decrease the vacuum chamber pressure any further. So Dr. Hickman has designed a sort of chemical pump which goes to work after the mechanical pump has done its best. A spray of oil vapor is shot in one side of the chamber, out the other. Some of the gas molecules roaming inside are struck by the oil particles, adhere to them, are thus escorted outside through the oil vapor exit...
...Electrical Journal, a Westinghouse publication, last week said: "This new pump is marvelously effective. It reduces the number of gas molecules to the point where they can almost literally be counted...
...celebration of Armistice Day at Arlington National Cemetery. Boss Batista eagerly left Cuba for the first time in his 37 years, turned up with his buxom lady, several aides and a trunkful of uniforms. His old enemy Sumner Welles, now Under Secretary of State, was the first to pump his hand at Union Station. To make the welcome royal, the U. S. Army band struck up the Cuban national anthem, and with a blare of trumpets gave the beaming Colonel a full general's salute...
...over-the-counter market regulation, only major issue oi last week's gathering was the proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean...
...unparalleled chance to make hay. A more energetic campaigner than bespectacled Governor Benson, he has covered 20,000 Minnesota miles in his car, bellowing into a back seat dictaphone between speeches. He makes as many as four in one evening, always scurries to the back of the hall to pump the hand of each departing listener...