Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Industrial investment, one of the economy's most sluggish sectors, is to be spurred by substantial new tax allowances on new plant and equipment that should pump close to $300 million a year back into industry and allow it to compete on better terms with European manufacturers. Exports, which have not risen in the last three months, are helped indirectly by the biggest cut ever made in the government's stiff sales tax on autos: the new tax, slashed from 45% to 25% of a car's value,* will save consumers close to $300 on an average...
...weeks ago, General Dwight D. Eisenhower came to Boston to pump for the Republican ticket, and in particular for George Cabot Lodge, the son of Henry Cabot Lodge '24, Eisenhower's ambassador...
Fifty emergency crews for the Boston Department of Public Works, aided by Fire Department and Civil Defense personnel, are working around the clock to pump out more than 3000 flooded cellars throughout the city...
...varmints, harmless to people, pets, wildlife and vegetation. A network of copper or plastic pipe is laid around the garden, patio or swimming pool, with nozzles set inconspicuously at intervals. The plumbing is connected to a tank of water-base Pyraid insecticide; when the owner flicks a switch, a pump jets the lethal mist over the area. A two-minute spray is effective for about half a day, gives off a pleasant lemon odor. The device is made by Feller Chemical Co. of Woodside, N.Y. De luxe unit, adequate for coverage of a 5,000-sq.-ft. area...
...indeed almost the only capable man, in the Clementines, a small and not very notable Midwestern order. The tall, urbane priest is a city man whose name fits him nicely, and when he consumes champagne and shish kebab with a millionaire amid the turbaned blackamoors of Chicago's Pump Room, he is doing what all the other city men dining there are doing. He is working...