Word: firemanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time Out. In Massillon, Ohio, City Auditor Edgar L. Lash gave an explanation of why he had turned down a minor expenditure for the local fire department: "There should be a fireman on duty 24 hours a day [and] I see no reason for an alarm clock...
...fans thought that he was also a great pain in the neck. They rode him for blurting that his 1940 salary of $12,500 was chicken feed for a star of his magnitude, and for saying, in a rare moment of complete discouragement, that he would rather be a fireman than play baseball. The fans razzed him for seeming to loaf in the outfield, and for ignoring the tradition of tipping his cap to the applause after he had hit a home...
Gillis points out his interest in trains is an outgrowth on an early desire to be a fireman or an engineer. He may seek a job designing trains after graduation. The other members of the club intend to enter business, law or medicine...
...Harvard Auxiliary Fireman's job was not always all work and no play. The group took on the aspect of an informal club when there was no work to be done and this is the part the old gang remembers best. "Everybody always showed up for those," Perry grinned when asked about the monthly banquets held upstairs in the Faculty Club. After dinner the Boston Fire Chief or other notables in the fire prevention world would speak for a while on modern techniques and use of equipment, and the rest of the evening would be taken up with sports movies...
...stubborn screens and bars, taking costly long minutes. Finally they clambered inside. They found one woman, two hours after the fire had started, seated calmly on her third-floor bed; her nightgown was partially coated with ice and she was surrounded by fallen debris. "Are you all right?" a fireman asked. "I think so," she said. Taking her by the hand, he led her to a ladder at an open window. "Some of them were like animals who had something new happening to them and didn't know what to do," said Patrolman Richard...