Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Equipped with the new batteries, two prototype electric cars that Ford is now building in England are designed to travel 150 miles at 40 m.p.h. They will weigh 1,100 lbs. and carry two adults and two children. Because electric cars require no transmission, radiator, fuel tank, carburetor, fuel pump, exhaust pipe or muffler, the increased weight of the batteries will be easily absorbed...
...Palms. As a result, they now pump hands with a scientific assiduity that would have made the late Estes Kefauver look like a basket case. Can didates for congressional and statewide races nowadays do their best to avoid neighborhood coffee klatsches as too time-consuming in terms of voters palmed per hour. Instead, they bustle through factories, supermarkets and bowling alleys, developing calluses as they strive for 300 hands an hour. This year especially the individual candidate must grope his own way to success, since there are no presidential coattails to hang...
...operate as a contractor to Iran rather than a concession-holding partner. Instead of splitting earnings with the host country on a 25-75 basis, as most major international oil companies do, France will turn over half the oil reserves it finds to Iran, in return for rights to pump out as much as 45% of the rest at well under the going world crude oil prices...
...Angeles. He wants to incorporate Watts,. for instance, and call it Freedom City, with its own police force, transportation and school systems. "I am obsessed with the idea of freedom, of self-determination," Karenga said at a rally during the Watts Festival, "and I'd rather use a pump in Freedom City that we controlled than to turn on a faucet in a city where we are daily brutalized and have no power...
...certainly. The Government itself could cut spending, thereby allowing the Treasury to curb its own borrowing; this not only accounts for a big share of the credit demand that worries Fowler but also tends to expand banks' ability to inflate credit. Reason: the Federal Reserve Board must often pump money into the economy to ensure that the Government can sell its bonds...