Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hayden investigated them carefully, sometimes in person. Once he made a surprise visit, incognito, to a camp, asked the director what he wanted most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...
Winter and Perry are advocating the construction of a rink in front of Hollis Hall where water could be easily gotten from the pump. Skating not only for pleasure, they were also demonstrating the possibilities of their idea...
When the artificial lake created threatened to inundate the basements, the Maintenance Department rushed to the rescue with a large gasoline pump at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon...
...Rome no interpreters were necessary since II Duce speaks fluent English. Premier Mussolini rushed forward and pump-handled his guest vigorously, then accompanied him to the palatial Villa Madama. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano warmly greeted Lord Halifax. There was nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain...
That the stockmarket should react unfavorably to indications of continued pump-priming was proof of business' confusion. Heretofore, such pump-priming talk has boomed the market, and even Wall Street admits that sharp curtailing of government largess would toboggan stock prices. Last week's pessimism apparently stemmed from the realization that new deficits may mean new taxes. But this was one matter on which Congress gave signs of having its back...