Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...percent efficiency. An old brick vault, in the basement of the Fogg Museum, has been painted with white lead on the inside. The only outlet is a thick steel door. Once the objects are locked up inside, gas from a cylinder is forced into the chamber by a powerful pump. The gas, which is allowed to circulate for at least a whole day, has the ability to penetrate almost any thickness of cloth or fibre, even reaching the innermost grains of a hundred pound bag of wheat with unimpaired efficacy. When the process is complete, the gas is exuded...
Yale turned up with a new gadget yesterday at the Junior Varsity game in the form of a portable shower. Managers would drag the machine onto the field during time outs, pump furiously, and refresh weary players with gentle rain...
Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...
Worthington Pump & Machinery, Phelps Dodge, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Procter & Gamble, Allis-Chalmers, Diamond Match, American Locomotive, Crane, Hammermill Paper, White Rock Mineral Springs, three dozen others. There was a man from the U. S. Navy Department and one from Standard Statistics...
...that menaces airplanes usually forms on the leading edge of the wings. Goodrich has developed a "deicer" consisting of a pair of rubber tubes which ordinarily lie flat against the wing. When ice formation begins the tubes are pulsated by an air pump. This movement cracks the ice coat, lets the wind blow it away .The "deicer" is already in use on some transport planes, is slated for thorough experiment on military aircraft...