Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothing smoking and his coal afire, Driver Wilson departed in bewilderment. Firemen later extinguished the blaze. By the smoldering bed they found the charred bodies of two Negro men, one Negro woman, all devout disciples of Harlem's bald little Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, May 27, March n, et ante...
...Brooklyn, as firemen fought into a blaze in the office of Dentist Irving Winter, ten gross of toothbrushes with composition handles exploded, injuring seven firemen, two of them seriously...
...fire broke out at Jefferson Physics laboratory yesterday, when a beaker of wax ignited, but the blaze war soon quenched...
Before they could get there, the bomber pancaked into the smooth field, exploded, broke in two, spouted flames. In spite of the danger of more explosions, the two young officers wrapped their coats over their heads, plunged straight into the blaze, dragged out Leslie Tower, chief Boeing test pilot and Major Ployer P. Hill, flying chief at Wright Field, both badly burned. The other three occupants managed to crawl out by themselves...
...there can be no flaming credit inflation until businessmen are again disposed to borrow. The current agitation is over the question of whether the Federal Reserve Board should use its fire-fighting equipment-such as its power to double present reserve requirements- before or after the blaze begins. At the Investment Bankers Association convention last week, Economist Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. of Chase National Bank demanded action now, declaring: "It would be a very serious matter indeed if we came into a period of vigorous, active business and strong speculative temper on the part of the American people with anything...