Word: pump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...
With the reports of bounty from the land, there was also good news from great & grimy cities. National employment for July was past the 60,000,000 mark, the figure which crystal-gazing Henry Wallace had hoped could be achieved by 1950 with the aid of pump-priming, full employment bills and more Government regulations. Better yet, the figure was not static; with wartime controls coming off, employment was rising steadily-July's total was 1,400,000 above that of June...
...dusty sedan at the White House door last week, shook hands with the doorman, stopped to gab a while with the President's personal secretary and ambled in to see the boss. Harry Truman exclaimed, "Well, look who's back," and jumped up to pump the fat man's hand...
...Wine, Old Bottle. In Hollywood, somebody stole Calven Walsten's car, returned it with a new fuel pump, new fuel line, new tire, a note of apology...
...existence as a whole was hardly dreary. Edith and Osbert performed musical marvels on a pianola, while Sacheverell, too young to pump, "listened to us both with a flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well-meaning people who pronounced girl as gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost...