Word: pump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg on the leg rest, put the pressure inductor on his shin bone and pump up the pressure until it hurts. That indicates the threshold at which pain begins (and the victim-however Spartan-is supposed to yell). The threshold varies from 500 (for the Gummidge type) to 2,700 grams, depending on the person's nervous system...
...respectively, vice president, executive vice president and president of G.M. at almost the same time as Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson won similar posts at G.E. When Charles Edward Wilson moved into his present home at No. 7 Hampton Road, Scarsdale, N.Y., Charles Eben Wilson, vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., had just moved out of No. 7 Old Army Road, Scarsdale. To add to the confusion, G.E. also has an engineer named Charles Edward Wilson. Last week G.M.'s Charles Erwin Wilson reported that three Detroit friends had urged him not to quit...
...last week at Vandalia, Ohio. In 45 years there have been no repeat winners of the national amateur championship, no women victors. The Grand American Handicap* was captured by Leslie Jepsen, a sparse-haired, thin, nervous electrician from Dwight, Ill. He toed the mark at 19 yards with a pump gun borrowed from a neighbor at home (he broke his own two years ago) and hit 97 clay birds out of 100. His prize...
Estimates of the cost of all this ranged from $750,000,000 to a round billion. But no one blinked. The bill was not only a bow to those who fight. It also constituted an approach to postwar pump-priming, a system of preparing in advance against depression...
...house) is a steel pipe 18 inches long and four to six inches in diameter (four inches for a four-room house, six inches for eight rooms). It has a feeder which pushes coal in at one end and ashes out at the other, a water jacket, a small pump which circulates the heated water rapidly to radiators. (The unit can also be adapted to hot air or steam.) In its tiny fire bed, coal burns much faster than in" previous furnaces, but so efficiently that the burner produces 40% more heat per unit of coal...