Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes, and a hose that is hooked onto the bathroom faucet...
Steel Plows for $8.40. The Kirloskar companies not only dominate their field at home (by producing 65% of India's diesel engines, 40% of its centrifugal pumps, 36% of its electric motors), but also symbolize the gradual change in India's old image as a mere exporter of raw materials. Nearly 20% of Kirloskar's diesels are sold abroad, from West Germany to California, and from the West Indies to the Persian Gulf. Kirloskar plants also turn out a neatly complementary array of products that range from air compressors to vertical turret lathes, from sluice valves...
...some sheiks haggle like bazaar veterans for the extra half-percent interest that is paid for whopping deposits (top: 7%), a few devout Moslems refuse to accept any interest at all on their oil millions. In Beirut's amazingly liquid and fast-moving money market, the bankers quickly pump their funds into short-term loans at up to 12%, finance everything from Pakistani exports and Saudi imports to local ski resorts and new cars. They seek to combine security with the plump profits of quick turnover, shun long-term credits or collateral-free personal loans...
...tiny Stonewall, La. (pop. 100), J. Howard Rambin Jr. got some early experience in how to be a Friendly Texaco Dealer: he used to man the Texaco pump in front of his father's general store. A lot of gas has gone through the pumps since then, and Texaco is now the nation's eighth largest corporation and the only oil company with outlets in all 50 states. Howard Rambin has been moving too. Last week, at 53, he was named Texaco's new chairman and chief executive officer, a post in which he will replace retiring...
...local "police power" to regulate public health, safety, morals or welfare. A pool owner may not only have to build a high, strong fence, but he may also also pay higher property taxes. To prevent disease and pressure on local sewers, he may be forced to install a costly pump that recirculates his water every 18 hours. To save town water, he may be required to dig his own well...