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...Xochimilquenses began to hit water, the municipality gave them some help. It hustled well-digging machinery and pumps out to the canals. It signed a contract with a nearby factory to use its pump during off-hours. As a result, in a single night 396,262 gallons of water were pumped into the canals. The boatmen, on their own, had accounted for plenty more...
Chemical drums exploded like cannon and the fire spread to other trucks; soon tons of meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south...
Microscopic Success. Both school boards set to work. King George bought a microscope for the Negro Training School, installed a new pump. It collected some 2,000 secondhand books for the library, bought some typewriters and added a stenography course...
Perhaps you will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...
...costs (minor item: its annual art awards have been abandoned), and the company has a new eight-ounce bottle to sell for 5? at race tracks and ball parks. For home consumption, there is still the old twelve-ounce bottle (new price: 6?). Pepsi also has a new syrup pump for drugstores; at the first plunge, it plays the Pepsi jingle. To cash in on these new ideas, Mack has brought Coca-Cola Vice President Al Steele into the company as sales boss...