Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...narrow streets of the mill city of Fall River, Mass. Frazzled textile workers were trudging into cinema theatres. Clerks were taking off their shoes, preparatory to reading the newspapers, while their wives washed the supper dishes. Unnoticed, a fire broke out in the abandoned mill of the Pocasset Manufacturing Co. on the edge of the business and theatrical district...
Next morning, black, jagged walls, crumbled ruins, ice-covered fire trucks greeted sleepy eyes. But the Fall River Globe, which had been printed in nearby Taunton, also appeared. "CITY STUNNED" said black headlines. The editorial began: "Fall River Faces Front...
...Fall River started building itself up again: There was prospect of more work. The whistles of 29 locomotives were screaming one afternoon last week. Their cords had been caught in the fallen timbers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.'s roundhouse and shops of Connellsville, Pa., while fire ate up $4,000,000 worth of locomotives and property...
...National Board of Fire Underwriters took a year and a month to compute 1926 fire losses of $561,980,751 for the U. S., the greatest fire damage ever suffered by any country in any year. Small comfort was drawn from the results of Fire Prevention Week of October, 1926, when 400 fire chiefs of leading cities reported losses of only $400,848 as compared with a weekly normal for their territory of more than $1,200,000. The underwriters said that people can be careful to avoid fires if stirred to do it, but they are simply not careful...
Once the snow has arrived it is duly trampled on and none is saved for purpose of "miraculous exhibits." And afterwards, during the long winter evenings in New Hampshire, the circle huddles closer to the fire. "It was a nice carnival" says someone. "Oh, yes and did you notice all the snow...