Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent its staff families home and prepared for further trouble. For months the Cuban government had refused to allow the oil companies to exchange pesos for hard currency to pay for crude. Remittances were more than $60 million in arrears. Moreover, using Russian oil would disrupt the well-to-pump integration that big oil companies count on for efficiency and profits. The companies decided to stand fast. Last week Castro sent two barges of Russian crude to Texaco's refinery near Santiago with orders to refine or get out. Even before the barges arrived, Texaco's officials...
...year at Ohio's Miami University, Mitchell went to New York, served a hitch as an underwear salesman at Macy's before heading for Florida and odd jobs around the Caribbean. Married in 1939 to Elizabeth Myers, wealthy daughter of the founder of Ohio's Myers Pump Co., Mitchell lives on a 30-acre estate with a half-mile of waterfront on Sharps Point outside Annapolis, owns Maryland's most valuable private collection of paintings (Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh), and uses a luxuriously appointed houseboat as a writing hideaway (four published books on sailing...
Seventy-three years have passed since a young teacher in Alabama held her little pupil's hand under a flowing pump spout and manually spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain...
...CHICAGO FIRE. Half the West Side bursts into flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
...much of their time thinking of ways for the Federal G....ernment to spend more, dedicated John Williams. 56. devotes his time to trying to get the Government to spend less. His latest discoveries in the fine print of federal expenditure records: ¶ The Air Force needed 116 fuel-pump screws in a hurry some time ago. The screws were worth about 5(' apiece, but the cost of extra handling and air-special delivery ran the cost up to $1 apiece. Later, when the Air Force came to pay for 272,-710 identical screws. Government purchasing agents agreed...