Word: pump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign to pump federal money into the nation's schools and colleges hasn't exactly spread like a prairie fire, but it has given off enough heat to make the opposition perspire. That opposition has been chanting religiously that federal money means federal dictation and violation of the principles of states' rights. But even the most fervent standpatters cannot deny that American education is in far from perfect shape...
...Says Designer Bel Geddes: "I thought that overscaled gimmick at the entrance to the Pump Room was a statue of Ernie Byfield by Noguchi...
...Pump Room Pump...
NORMAN BEL GEDDES IS MORE GIFTED IN DESIGN THAN HE IS IN OBSERVATION. THERE IS A PUMP IN THE PUMP ROOM [TIME, DEC. 13], BUILT IN AT THE LAST MOMENT BY SAM MARX, ARCHITECT. IT IS AT THE ENTRANCE AND IS OVERSCALE. TRUE, IT PUMPS NO WATER, BUT WE ARE NOT PARTICULARLY KEEN ABOUT PROMOTING WATER IN THE PUMP ROOM...
Into the paneled office of Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc. last week trooped a bunch of happy Texans. There they put the final seal on the biggest private deal in the history of natural gas: the financing of a new $193 million pipeline to pump gas from Hidalgo County, on the Rio Grande, to Manhattan's 132nd Street...