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...mitral commissurotomy, with pump stand...
...somewhat less than restrained reaction to the stringency of the Quincy regime. Henry Thoreau, obviously, was scarcely one to test the college ordinance demanding "no grouping in the Yard", tempting as the Harvard faculty had made the proposition by defining a group as "two students and the pump." Thoreau's disobedience was conducted in a more civil and self-reliant manner...
Another method, especially for a huge, not particularly good musical, is lavish promotion. For Baker Street, Producer Alexander Cohen primed the pump with $50,000. He stationed red-coated, busy-topped actors on the sidewalk in front of the box office, filled the lobby with Sherlock Holmes memorabilia, and transformed the theater facade into a brick house with cutouts of second-story men and assassins climbing ropes and ladders. Result: during Easter week, Baker Street set a Broadway grossing record...
...Thumbs. The town of Homestead settled into a state of siege regularly interrupted by violence. An anarchist from New York, Alexander Berkman, inflamed by newspaper accounts of the strike, came to Homestead determined to assassinate Frick; one day he managed to pump two shots into the mighty magnate, but Frick survived. Eight thousand Pennsylvania National Guardsmen bivouacked in the town under a general who was sympathetic to management; for expressing an anti-Frick sentiment, one soldier was strung up by the thumbs. When Frick imported scab labor under armed guard, the strikers poisoned their food; at least three died...
Supercharged Bank. As the system now stands, the Western world suffers from the lack of a truly international money. In recent years, it has used dollars and pounds to finance almost all of its growth in trade. When the U.S. and Britain run big payments deficits, they pump out plenty of dollars and pounds for the world to use. When other Western countries accumulate a lot of dollars and pounds, on the other hand, their bankers start to complain of inflation and tend to trade in some of that money for U.S. and British gold. There is constantly a dilemma...