Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were so many delays and abortive trials that the White Sands supply of concentrated peroxide threatened to run out. This touchy explosive liquid, used to drive the Viking's fuel pump, was obtainable only in Buffalo, and to get a new supply would take two weeks because it could be shipped only by careful rail transport. When the discouraging news reached the Martin plant, two designers, Bill Webb and Jack Early, hopped into a station wagon, picked up a drum of per oxide at Buffalo, and drove the fearful stuff to New Mexico with carefree speed...
...Your television set is not a vending machine for higher learning. It can, at best, be an invitation to knowledge. That in itself is very much . . . But the coaxial cable alone will not pump culture into anyone's veins-child or adult. Despite what any educational theorist may say, one can't possibly grow up to be educated without wide reading...
Members of Parliament, troubled by increased unemployment and last year's business decline, happily thumped their desks as Finance Minister Walter Harris read from a top-secret budget notebook the details of his pump-priming tax cuts...
Most Canadians approved the decision for deficit financing, and some even thought that Harris should have gone farther, making deeper tax cuts even if the deficit ran up as high as $500 million. Harris' confident answer was that pump-priming on that scale is unnecessary. Although winter unemployment has been high, there are many signs of a sharp spring upswing in business. Above all, the U.S. economy, on which Canada depends heavily, is booming. "We're not in a depression and there's no sign of one coming," Harris said emphatically. "I expect to break even very...
...kept supplied with fresh oxygen. As the boy's blood coursed through the lung tissue, it gave up carbon dioxide and picked up fresh oxygen. Then it fell to the bottom of the cylinder. From the pool that formed there, another tube led the blood to a pump which boosted it back to Patient Richmond's aorta-the great artery in his chest...