Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clayton's young men, 23-year-old Dorman Curtis, was bitter. "Simpson," he said, "never had a chance. Just drive by his house and take a look. No water. Just ... the pump there on the main street. No light. He never went to school much. How would you have grown up if your old man had never worked, and there was never any money in the house for food or anything? If you didn't have a nickel for candy? Sure, Russ has been in trouble all along...
...Canned Pump. In the atomic-submarine Nautilus (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951), the same heavy water that promotes the nuclear reaction in its atomic furnace will heat the boilers of its steam turbines. This stuff will be dangerous. Even the best modern pumps spring leaks, and the smallest leak of radioactive water would make the submarine's cramped quarters uninhabitable. Westinghouse now has an answer to this atomic-age hazard: a "canned" pump, with all its electrical parts locked tight in stainless steel. The whole pump is buried in the water pipe, needing no seals or packing that can leak...
Sheer Friendliness. Radio Writer-Producer Don (Fibber McGee & Molly) Quinn thinks that "this practice amounts to petty larceny. After all, for me to chisel a part of my sponsor's time to give a free plug to someone else in return for an electrical bicycle pump just plain isn't honest." But Quinn has been unable to get the Radio Writers' Guild or his advertising agency to share his indignation. And he concedes that policing the practice is nearly impossible: "Inevitably, a gag will occur that names a national product. You'd be silly...
...walls around the lock. When the walls were strengthened, they took to the jackscrew to force wedges between the door and the jamb. When safe doors were built with bolts that slid into the jamb on all four sides, safecrackers began blowing gunpowder around the door with an air pump. Now they use nitroglycerin, acetylene torches and power drills...
...Right Combination. Mosler's most promising new idea is its "Snorkel Auto-Teller" for curbstone banking. A customer can drive up to the Snorkel, a gadget the size of a gas pump, do business with a clerk several feet below the sidewalk through a system of microphones, mirrors, and an elevator, without leaving...