Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will readily escort you on tours of gasworks, municipal offices and other near showplaces such as the British Transport Commission or any of the more liberal-minded Catchment [Drainage] Boards." A cheap half-day tour: "two building sites, waits in selected Mayfair bus-queues, a good look at Aldgate Pump...
...program in 1936. But its economic research had a profound effect on national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings experts clarified and defined nearly every function of Government, from Indian affairs to forest control. Later they deflated many New Deal ideas, notably the theory that only pump-priming could make the economy grow. During World War II, Brookings went into everything from manpower allocation to postwar reconversion. In 1947, when Congress scrapped on foreign aid proposals, Brookings settled the fight with a plan that became the basic charter...
Before entering the town hall, where he was to spend Stafford walked over to a receiving line of school kids. He one received a single pump from the Governor's hand a smile, and a piece of campaign literature. Inside the about 30 people were lounging on benches which surrounding the basketball court. After he had finished shaking asked their hands, the Governor walked toward the middle of court and began to speak...
...only 106 years ago that experimenting British authorities closed down the common water pump in a busy London square and saw the bustling city's cholera rate drop dramatically. From that experience came a valuable lesson in public health: disease can be transmitted by polluted water. In the years since, along with his progress in sanitation and health, man has picked up new ways of polluting his environment. The new, more subtle contaminants bear such exotic names as alkyl benzene solfonate and acrolein, and they differ in one major respect from the contaminants of a century and a half...
...posterity." No taxidermist. Biophysicist Meryman, 39, tried an experiment. Posing the cardinal carefully, he first froze its joints into position with liquid nitrogen, then popped the bird into his kitchen freezer. When the moisture in the bird's body had turned to ice, Meryman used a vacuum pump and a chemical desiccant to remove the water in the form of vapor from the frozen body. The result: a thoroughly dehydrated but intact specimen suitable for display...