Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report meant that the Administration had met a recession and licked it not by the kind of pump-priming and governmental interference dear to the hearts of New Dealers, but by trimming Government expenditures and by giving private industry the kind of climate and incentive that allow enterprise to flourish...
Nearly everybody in café society liked Jules Lack. A big, gregarious playboy of 45, he spent most of his time hobnobbing with the rich and famous at the bar in "21," the Pump Room, or kindred establishments in New York, Chicago and Miami. Until his wealthy wife divorced him, Big Julie always seemed to have plenty of money. But after the divorce, the story got around that Lack often had to borrow large amounts from friends...
...million plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., production of Uranium 235 for atomic and hydrogen bombs has never stopped for a second since the process first began ten years ago. In the 44-acre building, which uses as much power as New York City, thousands of motors pump fiercely corrosive gases through endless microscopic filters in a steady surging flow. No one knows what would happen if the process stopped. Last fortnight, the Atomic Energy Commission feared that a strike of 3,500 employees might cause a ruinous stoppage. But the strike was quickly settled. Last week it became clear that...
Less welcome will be another effect: as the cold recedes the southerly regions will turn increasingly warm. Dr. Frederiksen believes that the gradual shift of climate will make the southern part of the U.S. hotter and drier than it is now. Farmers will have to pump more water on their fields, and in many places water may be less plentiful...
...again with another security agent (James Arness) and a beautiful female scientist (Joan Weldon) to hunt the horrors out. The hunters pump the anthill full of cyanide gas, and then go stalking through a giant welter of tunnels in search of survivors. Two queen ants, they discover, have flown the nest. Aghast, the entomologist rushes to Washington to tell an emergency meeting of VIPs that if the queens succeed in breeding a new generation, "man will probably be extinct within nine months...