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Word: pump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rambler owner inject a note of discord into your paean for American Motors' George Romney. My 1955 Rambler Cross-Country wagon is now on its sixth water pump, fourth set of universal joints, has never done better than 17 miles to the gallon, and lacks power enough to operate the air-conditioning unit and still allow normal speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1959 | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...whiz, TIME, how do you expect us little guys to pump gas all day and sleep well at night when we read about threats like that Romney character? Fire and brimstone on the Rambler! I say, "Man the gas pumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1959 | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...order of Chairman Mao Tze-tung and the Communist party Central Committee, a subsidy of a billion yuan will be used for pump-priming in communes and production brigades which are lagging...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Kennedy's Labor Bill Withstands Two Amendment Bids by Senate; Mao to Subsidize Red Communes | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

...soaper called Hawkins Falls, lasted 2½ years before she was tapped for Puppeteer Nellé's show. A miracle of poise on camera, the Blue Fairy is still a refreshingly down-to-earth teen-ager offstage. Celebrating the Peabody with her mother at Chicago's glossy Pump Room, Brigid downed two full dinners, including two bowls of whipped cream for dessert. The professional goodies are just starting. After the Peabody Award last week, the Blue Fairy is almost a sure bet for a network time slot soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Little Girl Blue | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...extend the Federal insurance program beyond its present scope. Both these plans would serve to insure that workers do not drop their consumption activities the minute they are laid off. At the same time that the relief money is preventing the jobless from near-starvation, it would also pump new funds into the economy. These revenues could, of course, be employed to put men and women back on the payrolls from which they had been dismissed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Figures in Disguise | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

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