Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police station: "...The ceiling is too beautiful. I want it cruddy. Put sprinklers in it." We feel that this is offensive. The automatic sprinkler industry has done an outstanding job over the years of saving billions of dollars in American property and has saved countless lives from death by fire. Automatic sprinklers do not produce a "cruddy" appearance any more than radiators, light fixtures or electrical devices...
RAYMOND J. CASEY National Automatic Sprinkler and Fire Control Association New York City...
...Cause of Mintoff's wrath was an Admiralty decision to fire 40 workmen at the Royal Navy's dockyard, which, together with a NATO naval headquarters constitutes the chief source of employment in the island. Keenly aware of the declining utility of naval bases in a missile age, Mintoff had vastly complicated his integration negotiations with Britain by insisting that whatever becomes of the dockyard, the British must not only agree to maintain full employment in the island, but must also promise to raise Maltese economic standards within twelve years to the same levels enjoyed by the British...
...London the first reaction was: "He's mad-stark, staring mad." Mintoff's next move was to fire off a cable to Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd proposing a "truce," and urging that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan intervene with the Admiralty to get the dockyard firings canceled. A day later came news that the firings had been cut from 40 to 30, and that alternative jobs would be offered all 30 discharged workmen...
...rare occasions-soaring into the sky. Sometimes they fall to earth, their launchers know not where. A San Antonio housewife hanging out her wash heard something swoosh down from above, and a length of pipe buried itself in the earth close to her feet. In Boston the National Fire Protection Association urged that amateur rocketry be prohibited until a strict system of supervision can be established...