Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vehicle inspection in this state is left up to approved gas stations; station attendants drive the cars around a bit, fiddle with the lights, pump the brake pedal a few times, and pass or fail the car as they will. There are no set stations will sell a sticker to any regular customer who has the fifty cents. Some garages really check over cars. Many don't bother...
...mile-long Central Valley, Jim Black's first premise proved right. Once a desert, Central Valley has blossomed into a rich farming area, made California the biggest U.S. producer of fresh vegetables. This has been due to cheap P.G. & E. power, which enables farmers to pump water from wells all over the valley...
...writes Potter, "is to treat Patient not only as if he knew nothing about medicine, but as if he were as ignorant of all anatomical knowledge as a child of four. Doctor will start, for instance, speaking very slowly, with 'you see, the heart is a sort of pump,' and will then imitate the action of a pump, unrecognizably, with his hands. Or he will refer to the blood corpuscles as 'the white fellows and the red chaps.' Alternately ... he will give totally unnecessary technical names and then explain them-e.g., 'That mild rhinitis...
...Pump 3,400,000 h.p. of urgently needed electric energy into the booming industrial complex of New York, Ontario and Quebec...
...other physical signs of Western influence. The village of Mamazan, for instance shows the beginnings of what could be the Iran of tomorrow. Its peasants, though almost as poor as their fellows, look clean and confident. Their houses are spick & span. Farm animals are kept outside. A deep well pump with simple brick filters assures clean drinking water-a rarity. (Even in Teheran, the drinking water runs through filthy gutters.) In Mamazan, Hobbing saw peasants doing voluntary work on a new community project, a bathhouse. He asked them if they minded the extra labor. They pushed back their round caps...