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This thought occurred to Acting Superintendent A. B. Everts of the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California. But 50 gallons of water weigh 416 Ib. Hauling that much weight, plus a pump and its power unit, over a mountain trail is slow work. Gasoline pumps are convenient but heavy. Forester Everts hit upon a source of power that is light and cheap as well as convenient. He tried frozen carbon dioxide...
...only through the dieticians' refusal to supply her with health foods such as Wheaties, Cocomalt, etc. This is announced with such reproachful sadness by the Crimson that one can only assume that these items are common fare in the Harvard Houses, and that their dieticians would be delighted to pump Freddie and his classmates full of haliver oil, on the slightest provocation. We heartily endorse this attitude, since by the natural laws of evolution the "precious ducklings" of Harvard (an expression aptly coined by the Crimson) will in ten years have progressed to a state where vitamin D alone...
...three cans of beer in the tank beneath the pump and was planning to fill it with enough to last 24 hours of steady pumping. "I figured that would be enough for one day," he added thoughtfully...
Unfortunately some blundering student happened along in the meantime and pumped the pump handle in passing with the same indifference that he would pull a fire alarm. But when he saw the foamy liquid gush forth into the trough, he let fly all thoughts of indifference, inertia, and psychic income, and lunged toward the dwindling stream of beer...
After a cautious approach the hotfoot huskies of the Yard Police were relieved to find it was only a real body, and tossed it into a passing laundry truck. Having assured themselves that there was no more beer in the pump, they left...