Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Known Moley dinner companions: Bruce Barton; William Thomas Grant of Grant stores; Andrew J. Maloney of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron; James Cash Penney of Penney stores; Harry C. Beaver of Worthington Pump...
...slow laborious upturn in business is in the making and may show possibly a greater than seasonal advance during the coming weeks. Perhaps the most encouraging index is the activity in retail merchandising. This advance is due directly to governmental spending. The government is not only priming but pumping the pump. An industrial truce as suggested by the President would prove extremely helpful to business in general...
...unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth...
...soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...
...industry (TIME, July 2). By last week the Federal Reserve had loaned a measly $810,000 of the $280,000,000 available, and Jesse Jones's RFC only $8,040,000 out of $300,000,000. And Mr. Jones, showing signs of weariness from his vociferous efforts at pump-priming, was ready to admit last week that the banks as a whole were "doing their share in lending...