Word: sump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look and one sniff, jumped in their cars and raced for telephones...
...interested in silk screen printing, court tennis, Canadian gold mining camps and gold mine stock promotion, cryptography, soil conservation, sump pumps...
...luck and his last minute capitulation he had worked his way out of the sump-hole of unpopularity in which he had been sloshing triumphantly for so long. The railroad strike had screened his undignified scramble for the bank. But if he remembered jumping into it in the first place he gave no sign...
Michigan. Drawing like a sump pump, good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson, 81, dredged up more than twice the combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...