Word: pumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected when a man standing 4 ft. 10 in. and weighing 110 Ibs. has fallen off enough horses to break both arms, both collarbones, both legs (one of them five times), both feet, two vertebrae and most of his ribs. To the fans, Longden is known as "The Pumper" (for his style of riding) and "The Fox." He is the jockey who rode Count Fleet to a Triple Crown in 1943, who drove Noor to four straight upset victories over the great Citation in 1950, and who by last week had won 6,032 races-692 more than any jockey...
Longden's last ride came to a classic happy ending. First time past the grandstand in the 1¾-mi. race, George Royal was running dead last. But The Pumper went to work. Looping the field on the final turn, he whipped George Royal into the lead, kept him there to win by a nose. The victory was worth $75,000 to George Royal's owner and $7,500 to Longden. But it was Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding...
...company's chemical plants, design new installations and plot transport routes from Phillips' 100-odd supply sources to its 2,500 wholesalers. In the lonely Oklahoma oilfields, Phillips' automated pumping stations now enable three men to do the work of twelve. "My father was an oilfield pumper," recalls a Phillips engineer. "He worked 14 hours a day, outside, in snow and heat, and got half a day off at Christmas. Now they do the same work nine to five, weekdays, without getting their hands dirty...
...test run, San Francisco's new Fire Engine 14 surged effortlessly up the steep streets of Nob Hill. On the flat, it accelerated from a cold start to 50 m.p.h. in 45 sec. (v. 60 sec. for older models). The new American-La France Turbo Chief pumper, which was undergoing performance tests in San Francisco last week, got its impressive pep from a gas turbine engine, the first ever used in a fire truck, and the latest of the expanding uses of gas turbines. Although gas turbines first came of age in turboprop planes, they promise to have...
...Orangeburg, S.C., 1,000 students left two Negro college campuses and marched silently in files of two toward downtown drug and variety stores, bent on sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. Town, county and state police, backed by three fire-department pumper trucks, blocked the marchers. "Let the leaders come forward," ordered police. Replied the students, surging on: "We are all leaders." Fire hoses and tear gas scattered the Negroes, threw them into choking confusion. Police arrested 350 students, marched them to a makeshift stockade behind the wire fence of the Orangeburg County jail's parking lot. At week...