Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...
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...Tarrytown, N. Y. Chamber of Commerce last week chose an ingenious method to pump money through local business arteries whose circulation has grown sluggish with Depression. Five dollar checks were sold to Chamber members and members of patriotic organizations, each recipient promising to pay an old debt or buy merchandise with his checks within 24 hours. As the checks cannot be banked until after June 30, each one will theoretically change hands 30 times, do $150 worth of business. Tarrytown hopes to wipe $60,000 in old accounts off its books by the end of the month...
...gerohrgedeckt, Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, ge-doo. The leonine head and thick-lensed spectacles of Archer Gibson, private organist for Charles Michael Schwab, bobbed over the keys of a small portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan. It was the "47th, 48th & 49th Fiscal...
...revealed a means he had devised to prevent the formation of ice on the wings of airplanes (TIME, April 14, 1930). He affixed rubber "overshoes," impregnated with oil, to the leading edges of the wings, and to struts, tail surfaces, flying wires. By means of a motor-driven pump, the overshoes were made to pulsate-to loosen the ice as quickly as it could form. The ice would be blown away. Last week at Akron, the Goodrich company announced that a Lockheed Vega and a Douglas mail plane equipped with Dr. Geer's overshoes had been flown...