Word: fired
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sudden fire that engulfed the second floor of Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in Chicago last December, 91 children and three nuns died, scores of children were seriously injured (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, on behalf of five children still under medical care for severe burns. Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed in Cook County circuit court a $1,750,000 damage suit against 1) the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, for letting the school become a "dangerous fire trap," and 2) the City of Chicago, for failing to enforce its own fire ordinances for safety standards in schools...
...crowded are Cook County court dockets that the school-fire case will not come to trial for an estimated five years. But if it is decided in the plaintiffs' favor, it could have far-reaching results, facing Chicago and other cities with an endless procession of negligence damage suits after any fire, explosion or accident in an area where the city is charged with safety inspection...
...Communist buildup at key Asian jumping-off points. The Mercator's flight was part of the hazardous duty that crewmen long ago came to accept as normal in the Asian aerial no man's land. Since the Korean armistice of 1953, Communist and U.S. planes have exchanged fire no fewer than 14 times along Asian coasts. The grim results: 36 U.S. airmen lost, ten Communist fighter pilots shot down...
After three days, the guns and fire hoses of 500 policemen finally brought peace to Durban. But just to make sure, the Union's Minister of Justice sent around three armored cars. In Cape Town, an M.P. rose to warn the government of South Africa about the dangers of tolerating such "rabbit warrens" as Cato Manor, where "23,000 Africans live under the most sordid conditions...
Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), working from S.L.A. Marshall's battle report, has produced a nerve-shattering study of how the American infantryman met his trial by fire in Korea...