Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blasted open their kiosk island and laid it before the public gaze. Thundering pneumatic drills proved the strength of their concrete. Sledge hammers exposed cross-section after cross-section, showing it pure and well-mixed to the last pebble. Today, disinterested students can stand before a saw-horse guard rail and examine the dismembered rubble: mute testimony to the honesty and conviction of a few simple workmen...
...survivor, Abdul Qaiyum Ansari, Minister of Rehabilitation of Bihar State, inspected the track where the accident had occurred. He found that the iron fishplates used to join sections of rail had been removed in two places and that the disconnected end of one rail had been pushed slightly inward...
...about little Bill Boland, the 18-year-old apprentice jockey who rode the winner of the Kentucky Derby (see SPORT): "A few minutes after the jockey room was cleared of its Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands who saw him pass didn't recognize the kid who'd just won the Derby...
...York's Jamaica race track next day, Derby Candidate Hill Prince (TIME, April 17 et seg.) put on a show of his own. With Jockey Eddie Arcaro holding him close to the rail, he took the lead at the head of the stretch, went on to win the $49,050 Wood Memorial in a closing rush. Hill Prince's time of 1:43.6 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth Wood was the second fastest on record (fastest: Count Fleet's 1:43 in 1943). Arcaro kept Hill Prince moving after the finish, worked the bay the full...
...favorite in the second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. A victory at that distance would be proof that Hill Prince was something more than just a fine sprinter. Proof was deferred. Moving up at the five-sixteenths pole, Hill Prince scraped the rail, lost his stride, found himself hopelessly blocked by the laggards at the head of the stretch, finished ninth in a field of eleven. The winner: Hal Price Headley's Lotowhite, 18 to 1. Said Eddie Arcaro: "That race doesn't prove a thing...