Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the U.S. last week gave the people of the U.S. satisfaction for Pearl Harbor. Long after the last blaze at Pearl Harbor had been doused, masses of smoke still billowed on cinema screens, the pictures of wreckage spread angry disaster across newspapers. There was no public cry for a scapegoat, but the nation wanted: 1) to know why the bombing attack had been permitted to happen; 2) to be reassured that it would not happen again...
Fire, flood and boom all swept Alaska last week. The fire swept through Seward, southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The blaze started in the Second Chance Barber Shop, raged for eight hours, destroyed half the town (pop. 949). Army officers set up emergency kitchens, found shelter for the homeless. In the rest of Alaska, men were fighting not fire but water...
...smouldering blaze between the double flooring of the building was discovered to be the cause of the smoke which a few minutes earlier had seeped through the ventilating system and caused the alarm to be turned in. Damage caused by the "conflagration," believed to have been caused by a cigarette stub, was slight...
...their young get back to the sea, this year's record run meant that the Chinook will run, dams or no dams. If, as some fishermen feared, this is the last big run the Columbia will ever see, the Chinook had ended, as he always did, in a blaze of glory...
Late last night a fire broke out in the Children's Museum on Jarvis Street. The Cambridge Fire Department answered the alarm, and fought the blaze for several hours. The extent of the damage could not be determined last night...