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...fireside chat (see p. 10). But the nub of the message was simply: "Viewed from every angle today's purchasing power-the citizen's income of today-is not sufficient to drive the economic system at higher speed." Thus the program itself was founded on the old pump-priming theory with five billions in cash and credit to do the trick. By various bits of legal and financial legerdemain the net cost to the taxpayer was described hopefully as a mere billion and a half. According to the President this would provide him with the "three rounds...
...Olim meminisse iuvabit," reads the appropriate inscription on the new pump. Certainly even the new pump already has several good things for which to be remembered. On Wednesday, January 20, 1937, real beer flowed from the pump...
...over thirty years the Yard struggled through an unnatural existence without its pump. Finally in 1936 the University took action; a new pump was resurrected for the Tercentenary Celebrations and was duly christened and primed with a silver-plated dipper before an enthusiastic delegation of old graduates...
...pump was made of an old log piling from a Boston wharf. It was "turned" by the Maintenance Department and provided with a modern drinking fountain...
Years ago when the Yard cops were uniforms and Duchesses did not bathe in gold tubs there was an old pump on the corner of Matthews. Torn down in 1885 this pump existed long enough to provide workers in the old Coop with water for washing...