Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phelps's attention was attracted to a picture of the College pump on the wall of his office. "The only good relic of past times left to us," be remarked. "It is too bad that some rowdies had to blow...
Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision...
...Murray Spangler invented a machine which was a combination of a carpet sweeper and suction pump. A small electric motor created a vacuum that sucked the carpet up away from the floor and against a carpet sweeper brush. This brush, revolving, beat against the carpet and loosened the dirt, which the vacuum in turn pulled into a convenient sack. This was, and is, the Hoover. William H. Hoover and his three sons, (Herbert W., F. G., and D. P.) made...
...Furze achieves that balance between rusticity and refinement which is sometimes considered the ideal embodiment of the English character. To Mary it seems that the rusticity outweighs the refinement. Still, she loves him, agrees to marry him. But as they plan for a new sink at Doomsday and a pump to supply water for Mary's dishwashing, she loses heart. In despair she takes a dawn train away from Cinder Town, going to Weyfleet to her sister Clare...
Tricky weather and minor difficulties had dogged the tails of the big ships, which were five at the start. At Tampico, the second stop after the take-off on Dec. 21 from San Antonio, Tex., the St. Louis broke an oil pump and burned out its motor. Another motor was fetched and installed, the other planes waiting. Leaving Guatemala City, the New York made a forced landing and lost its ground gear.* Taxiing out of Balboa harbor, off for Colombia, the San Antonio was snagged on a coral reef and the St. Louis had engine trouble. The cripples were mended...