Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philippines have received donations of vaccine and lifesaving solutions from the U.S., Formosa and Hong Kong. Last week UNICEF raised a $50,000 fund to pump more in. But for too many Filipinos the effort was too late. Said a foreign observer: "A terrible social and medical crime has been committed...
...Fallout protection is an extra amenity claimed for Wheeler's otherwise conventional 43-ft. motor yacht. It has a pump-and-filter system that allows fallout-safe operation for eight to twelve hours; the makers provide enough fuel capacity (300 gal.) to enable a surviving skipper to head for uncontaminated waters. Price: about...
...which has worked hard for the peaceful transition of power, resumed diplomatic relations and prepared to uncork an outpouring of economic aid. To pump new life into the Dominican economy, which was bled white by the treasury-looting Trujillo clan...
...perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz part kept going during the fatal flight. But engineers from established airlines blinked in dismay at Imperial's incredibly slipshod methods of maintenance. Said one: "They must have been a little desperate...
These were the planes that might also endanger the steady stream of U.S. Air Force Globemasters which had already begun to pump vehicles, artillery and troops into Elisabethville from Leopoldville at U Thant's urgent request. Other Globemasters were bringing more U.N. troops direct from Europe; a battalion of Swedish and a battalion of Irish soldiers arrived at the height of the battle. One Globemaster pilot, coming in for a landing, had not been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage...