Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason to tell only a little of what he knew. The rest he tells to the reader...
...April, as part of the present $4,000,- ooo investment to develop Saratoga as a State-owned park and health centre, the New York Legislature voted an additional million for a huge central drinking hall, pump room and bath house. The scheme was wangled by two fervent Saratogoers, Bernard Mannes Baruch and George Foster Peabody. Joseph Henry Freedlander was appointed architect...
Architect Freedlander lost no time, took the first boat to Europe. Accompanied by the Messrs. Baruch and Pierrepont Burt Noyes he toured the spas and pump houses of Europe: Vichy, Nauheim, Baden-Baden, Bath, Montecatini, taking notes. He returned last week, full of ideas. For their million dollars, New York cardiacs and taxpayers will have the largest pump house in the world. Because U. S. spas are backward in their understanding of Regime? diet, exercise, rest facilities to accompany a water cure?Architect Freedlander will concentrate on appurtenances...
...California, Standard Oil of Louisiana, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of Nebraska, Utah Oil Refining Co. Under the terms of the agreement, the stations will display Postal signs, attendants will furnish blanks. They will carry the blanks out to motorists sitting in their cars at the pump, if desired, and immediately telephone their messages to the nearest telegraph...
...half-dozen of the planes on the carriers are land planes. Each is equipped with a rubber bag and air pump to inflate it in case of forced landings at sea. Two destroyers escort each carrier as tenders for such mishaps...