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...Seventh, by the savings on relief, and reduction of other expenses and the end of pump-priming, drive to really balance this budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Points | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Fourth, stop this spending and inflation and pump-priming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Points | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Disregarding suggestions that the broken Yard pump be sent to Washington for priming, Maintenance men yesterday afternoon succeeded in repairing it for the third time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD PUMP PRIMED AGAIN | 5/7/1938 | See Source »

During the last two successive nights the old-fashioned pump has got mysteriously out of order. Yard cops prefer to think that the trouble is caused by its over-use rather than malicious sabotage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD PUMP PRIMED AGAIN | 5/7/1938 | See Source »

George Washington had the first pump in Virginia, while all others were still using sweeps and windlasses. It was a wooden pump; and one day it just wooden pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FABLE, INSPIRED BY THE HARVARD PUMP | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

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