Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby's, and the doctors decided that his father's was suitable. As the infant lay on one operating table, his father was on another parallel to it. A surgeon tapped the main artery in the father's thigh, led the freshly oxygenated blood to a pump which boosted it on its way to a tube set into an artery in Gregory's chest. After it had coursed through his system, the blood flowed out from one of the great veins near the heart through more tubes and pumps into a vein in the father...
...swallowed poison are told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will serve in a pinch) to the hospital right away. There, the old-fashioned stomach pump is still the mainstay of treatment...
Other features in the contemporary Bulletin are a comprehensive and well-read letters department, a column of "antiquarian chitchat" by ex-editor McCord entitled "The College Pump," a university section in which current releases from the Harvard News Office are re-written in a clear, light style and with background information added, an Undergraduate column written by the Bulletin's undergraduate editor about life at the College, and--of primary interest to many alumni--a report on the past fortnight's athletic happenings...
...national product, there were still 9,500,000 unemployed. Public works equaling 3% of today's national product would total more than $10 billion a year, far more spending than now planned. Actually, the $40 billion a year being spent on defense production is, in effect, a gigantic pump-priming program. Another big trouble with an emergency public-works program now would be that it would stimulate the very industry that needs stimulation least, i.e., construction...
...month in 1950, when the post-World War II top of 4,123,000 was reached. But with more than 60 million U.S. citizens on the job and with the usual spring upturn expected this month, the President and his advisers felt "encouraged," saw no present need for Government pump-priming...