Word: pumpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that moment Sam was just a pensioned pumper driver from the Bayonne (N.J.) fire department, and Sam's bar & grill was like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam" Hock, who amused the trade by whacking tunes out of whisky bottles with a suds-scraper. But the customers got a joyful jolt when Sam opened up one morning last week...
Equipment is kept at the Maintenance Department and consists of an old Boston pumper, another pumper, and two demolition wagons. The latter carry equipment for combatting fire, incendiary bombs, and other similar emergencies...
Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing...
...which his vest doesn't quite reach and sits around in the kitchen after midnight snacking on a slice of sugared bread dampened with milk. He came as close as anyone has to beating Wall Street's gag about merging Worthington Pump and International Nickel, to get Pumper Nickel...