Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole economy slowed down. In 1953, output fell, the foreign-trade deficit rose one-third, and nearly all employers laid off help. Last week, faced by a worsening business recession, the President announced that he would shelve austerity and spend a record $400 million this year on pump-priming public works...
...society until it sent a bogus diploma to the Czar of Russia, reaping a handsome gift in return. Lingering on despite administrative wrath, the Society continued to be happily destructive until the turn of the century, when its nihilistic bent culminated in the blowing up of the old College pump in front of Hollis...
Pipe Dream. VacCo Pump Co., Inc. of Indianapolis brought out a new type of pump for unclogging household drains. Working on the principle of the old-fashioned plunger, the Pull-It Pump can build up a vacuum of 15 inches with the help of a vacuum valve inside the rubber force cup. Price...
With that kind of leeway, micro-midget fans have scrounged engines from a wild assortment of places: lawnmower motors, outboards, motor scooters, units from generating and refrigerator plants, and even bilge-pump engines salvaged from Navy landing craft. Average weight of car and engine...
...sweets provided by the Communist Party. Malenkov, along with other Soviet bosses, has made a point of stepping down from his fearful eminence to participate in precinct meetings of the party and the workers. He has been popping up in towns and villages all over European Russia to pump oldsters' hands and wave at the muzhiks from his train. His puppets in satellite Hungary have revived old-style coffee shops, which under Stalin were banned as "reactionary," and let American jazz (Blue Tango, C'est Si Bon) push Russian classical music off the radio...