Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriation left, Senator Connally promised that he "and some other Senators" would try to see that it got not another dollar. When he had finished his tirade, Senator McAdoo, President Wilson's onetime son-in-law and Wartime Secretary of the Treasury, rushed up to pump his hand...
Food Machinery started humbly in 1884 when Maine-born Californian John Bean invented the first hand spray pump, designed to battle the San Jose scale.* Spray pumps grew bigger, with higher pressures, became power driven, resulted in the manufacture of turbine pumps used in irrigating farms. Now turbine pumps are used in mines and tunnels...
...Spray pumps also developed into pumps for washing food. From food-washers came automobile washers, and from automobile washers a line of motorcar equipment including brake-testers and wheel-aligners. Thus many a Food Machinery product sprang from the spray pump, which Food Machinery still sells...
...Eliot House sinking or not? That is the question which should be in the minds of all loyal Jumbos at this time with their yard graced by a machine pump, a mound of loose earth, and a good deal of miscellaneous water...
...date the question remains unsolved. Active measures of repair, however, are being employed. The automatic force pump from inside no longer throws out its contents into Cambridge at large but a noisy machine job balls unceasingly in an attempt to link the sewage system of Eliot House with the main network. As for the pipes, they will soon wear protective sleeves to guard against either sinking or corrosion...