Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spending more than half of this year's federal-university research outlay, these centers tend to siphon scientists away from teaching, but they also get research done-and perhaps in its proper place...
...faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty water, empties it in the sink, leaving the floor clean and dry. Says Family Circle Magazine: "The greatest thing since sliced bread." Price...
...shortages. They point out that Japanese weather reports show little unusual weather over China during the year, suspect that the "natural calamities" may have been invented or exaggerated by Red propagandists to account for a shortage of food really attributable to the Communist regime's drive to siphon off food for export abroad to pay for the machines and supplies needed to build up Red China's industry. One U.S. expert said the 1960 crop may actually have been "a little bit ahead" of the poor crop year 1959. Whether due to natural calamity or governmental squeeze...
...German aid fund will tap private industry for a loan of $400 million, siphon off state-government surpluses ($125 million), and drain unused Marshall Plan counterpart funds and the federal government's own customary budget surplus. Still another source: sale to the public of $125 million in shares in the Government-owned Volkswagen works, whose sales abroad have made a mighty contribution to West Germany's foreign exchange hoard. The new aid, announced Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, would be offered to underdeveloped countries at low interest and over a long term; unlike past German pinch-pfennig credits...