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Word: pumper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traxler car. As officers came up they found Nell sitting in it, fainted dead away with Sweetpea and June in her lap. All night 500 officers with bloodhounds searched the Washita River bottoms. Sometime near dawn Traxler and Tindol routed out James E. Denton, a frail middle-aged oil pumper and took him and his car. Later in the morning after driving through Caddo, they seized a farmer, Fred Trimmer, and changed cars. They had several close calls driving through towns, and going through a detour where a road gang was working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: End of a Trail | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...years as official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ gave him a good deal of anxiety for fear that the old bellows would leak faster than he could pump. "Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower," he used to tell his grandchildren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN SKEHAN, FAMOUS YARD WORKER, IS DEAD | 3/27/1935 | See Source »

Another new engine, a 1000-gallon-per-minute pumper and rescue truck, is expected by the department in a few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sparkless Sal, Victim of Garbage Truck Crash Forced Out by New Scientific Aerial Wonder | 3/8/1935 | See Source »

...official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ for 30 years, he used to supply the music-making wind every morning. "That was some job!" he asserted. "The old bellows leaked about as fast as I could pump. Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY PRESENTS MEERSCHAUM TO WORKER | 3/5/1935 | See Source »

From Three Rivers, Mich., Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, successfully sent a letter to Pumper Stanley Jones, advertising copywriter for Gimbel Brothers department store in Manhattan, addressed thus: Mr. Stanley Catmeat Jones, Rags and metal, hides and bones, You can find him in at Gimbel's Writing ads for silver thimbles, If he don't get this it's a pity Way down there in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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