Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year the Public Debt had been increased from $23,800,000,000 to $28,300,000,000. And the Treasury actually found it easier to float new loans than it had a year earlier. But after making emergency expenditures of $4,500,000,000 the pump of industrial recovery was not yet primed and the prospect of a balanced budget was still very remote...
...Public Works program, including Government-built low-cost housing, to prime the pump of heavy industry which refused to be primed by the first $3,300,000,000 appropriated last year. Such a program was discussed about the White House in astronomical terms of billions of dollars. Prime point was govern-ment spending on such a scale as the country had never before dreamed...
...pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood...
...depression seems comparatively clear. The government must cease its threats to private initiative. It must use every force at its command American business to make money. Having made a fondle attempt to solve the problem of unemployment by radical programs and federal priming of the industrial pump, the administration must now encourage the normal course of business enterprise. Only by thus inducing business to stand on its own feet can the Roosevelt regime hope to achieve a permanent and satisfactory solution to the problem which every day thrusts itself more sharply into the life of the American public...
Aware that his CAM bond issue was hopeless at this time, Nominee Sinclair proposed, instead, to levy a tax on industrial corporations and utilities to raise ''$5,000,000 or $10,000,000" to prime his EPIC pump. He proposed to go to a man with an idle dress factory, for example, rent his plant for tax-receivable paper for three years, retaining the executives at their old salaries. Unemployed would be put to work making dresses for other unemployed, who would in turn be set to work as soon as possible in other factories...