Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as some U.S. manufacturers were about to pump up the price of tires by 5% last week, the General Services Administration punctured the air hose by announcing a 14?-a-lb. cut in the price of natural rubber. GSA Administrator Jess Larson wants the tiremakers to pass along their savings, $40 million in the next three months, to consumers. At 52? a lb., rubber is now 47% cheaper than last December, when GSA clamped the lid on skyrocketing rubber prices by taking over the buying of all natural rubber...
...with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they watched the International Rapids plunge in wasted, foamy fury toward the sea, saw where generators could be built to pump 3,400,000 h.p. of electric energy into U.S. and Canadian industry...
...didn't tell the artists what to paint," explained Dr. Aldo Alberti, Esso's contest director. "We just gave them hints. After all, oil is part of every landscape. A gasoline pump to the modern eye is like a tree...
...artists, professional and amateur, as "Motif No. 1." Rockport citizens have long taken jealous pride in preserving its warped red siding and sagging shingles in a state of paintworthy dilapidation. A year ago the tenant, Dana Vibert, lobster dealer, strung overhead wires to the shack to run an electric pump. Horrified art colonists demanded that he take them down; they spoiled the charm. Replied Vibert: "If you don't like the wires, don't paint 'em." Charm or no charm, he intended to go right on running his electric pump with electricity...
When Margaret Truman stepped into the Pump Room of Chicago's Ambassador Hotel, fresh from Hollywood and her radio acting debut, the headwaiter led her to Table No. 1 with a respectful flourish. The last time Margaret had rated only Table No. 11. The reason for the rise in rank, the hotel explained: Miss Truman is no longer just a President's daughter and a singer; she is now a radio and television actress...