Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge Police announced last night a new "tag and tow" policy to eliminate student parking on the city streets. The policy is the result of complaints of firemen who were hindered by illegally parked automobiles in their attempt to fight the Leverett House fire early Monday morning...
William Cremins, Deputy Chief of the Fire Department, complained that the number of parked cars made it "impossible for our men to get in there." The illegally parked cars prevented the firemen from getting their equipment close enough to the fire without wasting several minutes trying to maneuver through the blocked streets. Police claimed there would have been a panic if the fire had not been such a small...
...thing to do next is get some more hardware onto that Florida launching pad as quickly as possible, load it and fire...
...town) and well-honed gibes at such unlikely targets as the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen, Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News and the powerful Denver Post. Gene Cervi, 50, onetime Colorado State Democratic Chairman, and a graduate of both Denver dailies, of late has concentrated his fire on Republican Mayor Will F. Nicholson's hotly contested plan for a city payroll tax. Instead, argues he, the administration should save up to $3,000,000 by eliminating "known, provable and neglected waste at City Hall...
...stocked innards of the city's steel-and-concrete underground operations center. But Portland's citizens let viewers down. Mobilizing to the immobile narration of Cinemactor Glenn Ford ("quietly, with caution, but without panic"), the actors behaved with the equanimity of Perry Como in a high school fire drill, rendering unnecessary the slides CBS periodically superimposed over the actors to explain: "AN ATTACK IS NOT TAKING PLACE...