Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive for adjournment hit hidden shoals, however, when the $10 billion supplemental appropriations bill came out of a House-Senate conference still carrying a House rider which would cut atomic-energy funds in half and seriously restrict construction of new atomic installations. Rising to the attack, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, in a surprising burst of stirring and statesmanlike oratory, warned that the rider would blunt the U.S. atomic-energy program at a critical stage. Passionately, he demanded that the bill be sent back to conference for another try at removal of the rider...
...Paul Douglas, Majority Leader Ernest McFarland of Arizona. In an attempt to save the day for the Senate's let's-get-out-of-Washington faction, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar got to his tired old feet. McKellar swore that the House would never abandon the rider, and that, anyway, the bill wasn't such a bad one. But after McKellar had slumped back into his chair, Hickenlooper and his supporters won the day. At dawn, in a turbulent voice vote, the Senate sent the bill back to conference. This week the conference reached a compromise...
...years ago, after a rough & tumble career that earned him more than his share of spills and quarrels, Jockey Eddie Arcaro was brought before a board of stewards. Did he, they asked, deliberately try to spill a rival rider? Arcaro, who had been rammed at the start of the race, answered candidly: "I'd of killed the sonofa-bitch if I could." Arcaro was suspended for a year...
...experience taught him a lesson: a good jockey must control his temper. Since then, Arcaro has become the No. 1 money-winning rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...
...putting up $10,000 cash and borrowing $90,000, a free rider could buy $1,000,000 worth of bonds, resell to a bank and pocket a $3,750 profit, making 37 1/2% on his money in a week...