Word: pump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene and on the air through the night -and thousands of Utah citizens stayed up to watch. The cameras caught many intimate tableaux-an inmate being carried out after a heart attack, the release of a handful of hostages, including a trembling attendant who had been forced to pump the stomachs of prisoners groggy with narcotics and rubbing alcohol. Then the prisoners named the price of surrender: their grievances, over such matters as bad food, harsh treatment, must get publicity and an investigation by Governor George D. Clyde. The convicts snatched at Larson's idea of putting their spokesmen...
...mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen's worst handicap isn't blindness, it's your love and pity . . ." The story closed movingly on Annie's first real triumph with Helen. As water trickled from the garden pump over her fingers, Helen made her first association between a word-water-and a thing. Although Annie had repudiated love throughout the ordeal, in the end she wrote in Helen's hand: "I, love, you," and rarely in TV drama have those words seemed so meaningful...
...miles from the area to Los Angeles, be built by Shell Pipe Line Corp. at a cost of $50 million. When completed at year's end, its initial capacity will be 60,000 bbl. daily, which could be upped to 160,000 bbl. by increasing the number of pump stations along the route...
...insists Mrs. Tunnicliff, the school will find the funds it needs-for the sake of the eleven-year-old with the body of a child of six, for the small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump," for the 30-year-old spastic who after 17 years of grueling work is at last able to carry on a conversation and to hold down a job as a bookkeeper...
...along the price front last week inflationary puffs sent prices soaring. Crude oil rose 35? a barrel in Texas to a record $3.25, the first price hike in more than three years. Next day gasoline followed, with a 1? per gallon increase at the pump. As a result of a $40 million wage increase that went into effect Jan. 1 as part of last summer's steel contract, and the Government's refusal to approve fast tax write-offs for expansion, the steel industry posted price increases ranging from 1% on hot rolled strip to 5% on plate...