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