Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your article on "Boomers & Howlers" (TIME, Aug. 19, p. 11) reported well the serious forest fire situation with which "desperate, haggard foresters'" were coping at the time. But in your footnote you came far short of the fact in giving the number of forest fires in the U. S. last year. Not 6,921 fires, but some 177,000 fires occurred during 1928. . . . C. E. RANDALL Forest Service U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington...
...question depended on the Equity contract clause stating: "The management is not responsible for fire, strikes, or an act of God." Mr. Harris declared the expected MacArthur baby was certainly "an act of God." The protesting actors said it was no such thing...
...order to analyze the carrying out of assignments and to give individual instruction. A thorough drill on offensive and defensive tactics was undertaken, the major emphasis being placed on the former. The Harvard mentor gave out two new plays which were tested in skeleton drill and then under actual fire...
...President Hoover sat at his desk, dictated a letter. His message was delivered not by post but by radio. He expressed hearty approval of nationwide "Constitution Week," designated Oct. 6 as the beginning of "Fire Prevention Week...
Opium Ships. Generals Couzens of Michigan and Robinson of Arkansas suddenly moved to insert a provision in the tariff bill making the owners as well as the skippers of ships subject to fine for bringing illicit opium to the U. S. As they opened fire, Republicans and Democrats alike turned their guns on the opium fleet. For a few moments a hot fusillade from both sides poured into the invaders lying at anchor off the shore...