Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exposition visitors who chanced to be in Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam...
...faces Alabama, Princeton plays Cornell. Among the other contests of importance are Holy Cross vs. Fordham, Illinois vs. Iowa, Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame, Alabama vs. Tennessee. Here in New England two clashes will be the center of interest. Harvard's team will receive its initial trial under the heavy fire of the cadet guns, while Dartmouth will be weighed in the balance against Columbia. This latter game will bring face to face two of the great backs of eastern football. Hewitt, light blue ace, and Marsters, star Indian threat, will vie with each other for the afternoon's honors...
President Woodruff's experience with White Motor Co., goes back to 1913 when at the age of 24 he became a salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
...Fitchburg, Mass., cinema house, James Raymond laughed so hard at a comedy that he swallowed his false teeth, fell down stairs. Someone shouted "Fire!" Soon an ambulance and fire engines arrived...
There will be a Fire Drill in three minutes, children. The Eighth Grade will form in two orderly lines in front of Escape 16. . . . Good morning, pupils. Attention. Stand. Now the morning calisthenics will begin. . . . Will Charles Robbins, Room number Nine, please report to the Principal's office. . . . Charles Robbins...