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Harvard did some pump priming of its own yesterday morning as the Maintenance Department worked feverishly over the Yard pump. After half an hour's labor its efforts were rewarded; pure water from the Cambridge Water Works gushed out at exactly 8:45 o'clock...
...previous day workmen had primed the pump in vain. For the pump handle had not been attached to the connecting rod, and no amount of priming could remedy such a fundamental error...
...original pump was constructed in 1764 over a 35 ft. well to accomodate students in Hollis Hall. But so many others took advantage of it that about 35 years ago it fell into the last stages of decay. Several sporadic attempts to blow it up in 1904 and 1905 did not remedy the situation and the University was finally forced to remove...
Five years and fifteen billion dollars ago Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the policy of spending the Nation out of depression. To raise submerged industrial indices and put 12,000,000 men to work, the pump of national finance was primed with Government money. Spending theoreticians like the Federal Reserve's Marriner Eccles would have liked to see the full force of the spending concentrated on industry rather than scattered between producers and consumers and an important Eccles corollary would have been a temporary lifting of the tax burden to help business help itself (see p. 18). At any rate...
Last week the U. S. Government did the following for and to U. S. Business: C. Contemplated resuming "pump-priming" with expenditure of as much as $4,250,000,000 to pull the nation out of depression doldrums...