Show commonplace pump termed most widely used machine philadelphia with only 29 per cent of the nations farms equipped with the most universally used machine in the country the commonplace pump the remaining 71 per cent are rapidly becoming an important market tor for this mechanism which outnumbers the automobile telephone and refrigerator combined terming the pump the unsung cinderella of the machine family richard H demott vice president of industries inc in an industrial du report said that of the coun arys farms only are equipped with pumps tor for running water he estimated that the national pump population now tops million constituting one of the most important uses lor for ball and roller bearings he compared the pump total with automobiles refrigerators and telephones reported in use at the end of 1946 pointing out that each motor vehicle uses at least one form of pump |