Word: pump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared its own shock absorber. According to an industry-wide survey made by the Department of Commerce, U.S. manufacturers plan to spend some $4.5 billion for plant expansion during 1946. Expenditures by public-utility companies and the railroads may reach $1.5 billion. More than that, industry plans to pump out $2.8 billion to restock its depleted inventories of non-military goods. Civilians may spend as much as $100 billion for goods...
...Cover) In peace, the U.S. railways, like the human circulatory system, are taken for granted. Only in war, when the crowded arteries pump hard, does the U.S. become conscious of their existence. Last week, the American people were conscious, as seldom before, of their rail system. The congestion, slowly worsening during four years of war, had reached the danger point under the heavy strain of troops deploying from Europe to the Pacific...
...period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked by what Rosenfeld calls Fitzgerald's sense of "the quality of brutishness, of dull indirection and degraded sensibility running through [the] American life of the hour...
...Used to It." New Chum Masefield had no time to marvel. His first day swept by in a hurricane of piercing whistles, pipes and clanging bells. He labored away on some engine (he was assured it was a pump) until his arms hung like strings; he hauled on a rope as thick as his ankle-hauled so well that until his head hit the deck some yards away he didn't know that his 80 mates were hauling in the opposite direction...
...engineers of the Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp. to think of it. They propose to use it in Consolidated's projected plane, the 204-passenger CV-37, which will be so huge that it would normally carry 180 Ibs. of air in the tires alone. Cost of a helium pump-up (near a helium plant): about $50. Weight saving: 154 Ibs., the approximate equivalent of an extra passenger per trip...