Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire on the speedboat of U.S.-born Raymond Patenôtre, French UnderSecretary of National Economy, forced him and 15 guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed only when her husband cried: "Damn it all, jump!" Towed 150 yards to shore by the Marquis d'Alemeida, said she: "That 10 minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives...
Soaring over the Urals two years ago in a Russian passenger plane with a Russian pilot, Reporter-at-Large Ellery Walter was jerked from contemplating a beautiful sunrise by a sickening sputter in the motor. Realizing the ship was out of gasoline, the pilot tugged frantically at the fuel pump, got a dying burst of power which enabled him to clear some trees by a breath-taking margin, land in a cornfield. When Reporter Walter got his breath back he asked how the fuel could be exhausted just after leaving an airport where barrels of it were available. The pilot...
...river at all, but he remains attached to it remembering how, although it would deny everything, it has worked sorrow and pleasure. In the fall when Cambridge twilight's are a smoky blue, white-shirted harriers jog along the winding course to Watertwon and back, while men in shells pump up and down like regulated pistons. When Dartmouth comes to town, girls in bright colors walk over the bridge, heels clicking on the walk like little hammers. When there is something shining and invisible in the air over the Stadium, the Vegabond feels as if he were walking on tiptoe...
Manhattan's Daily Advertiser advertised the U. S.'s first panorama show (Jerusalem) in 1790, "at Lawrence Hyer's Tavern, between the Gaol and the Tea Water Pump; the sight is most brilliant by candlelight." The U. S. panorama fad reached its peak in the 1850's, faded fast...
...tune of nearly $1,000,000,000. It did not succeed because the period was one of liquidation. Now that pressure has been relaxed, if not definitely reversed, President Roosevelt believes that with a strong and sympathetic man at the handle, he can make the Reserve credit pump work effectively...