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Finally, the British have abiding faith in their "parish-pump" wisdom and ability to work to immediate practical issues rather than toward grand principles. As a people and as a nation they are confident that they have something to give to the world. They are also pretty sure that if the world comes again to dog-eat-dog, the British will be able to dine as usual...
...Each cell of the body contains a minute suction and pressure pump. . . . Before Alfred Lawson explained PENETRABILITY . . . no one seemed to know the cause of capillary action. The foregoing paragraph should clear up that problem...
...ponderous, delicate job of righting the U.S.S. Lafayette began cautiously last week. In his operations office aboard the wreck, Merritt-Chapman & Scott's tough, salvage-wise John I. Tooker signaled his pump men. Too slowly for a waiting eye to see, the big dead ship moved in her muddy grave. Only the high-water mark etched on her nearly vertical deck revealed the inching gain...
Navy's rich, ill-famed Elk Hills oil reserves has raised the hair of Congress for the past fortnight. Many a Congressman, suddenly made aware of the contract which Navy Secretary Frank Knox signed last November with Standard Oil of California to pump oil from Elk Hills, mumbled of Teapot Dome. By last week, two House committees, Naval Affairs and Public Lands, were probing the contract, which was abrogated after the Justice Department found it "illegal and invalid." They had failed to uncover any skulduggery...
...Bill Gonsalves, who works as a mechanic at the Worthington Pump Co. when he is not playing soccer, is a 200-lb. six-footer with a tremendous kick in his massive legs. One of soccer's hardest shots, he can boot a ball fast enough to break a man's hand. From 20 yards he has often broken the goal's netting. Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues...