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Eager Beaver. In Granville, Wis., the town's only paid fireman, Calvin Shult. confessed to 100 false alarms, explained that he wanted to promote enough business to justify a pay raise...
...Washington fireman asked: "Why don't we find a defense against the atomic bomb?" He got his answer from Air Forces General George C. Kenney: "There just isn't any adequate defense against atomic attack...
Johnston, onetime callboy, engine wiper, fireman and engineer on the Great Northern, had been a B. of L.E. official 16 years when he became its Grand Chief Engineer (a title he loves to roll on his tongue) in 1925. Besides the title, he also inherited the union's sour financial ventures-notably a bank and a $15,000,000 burst bubble in Florida real estate. His inaugural address: "I am no banker...
...immediately began applying the air brakes," he said, "but we were going too fast, I guess. ... I passed a red board . . . still trying to bring her down. . . . Then I saw the stalled train ahead. . . . Then I saw the flagman . . . Crayton, my fireman, said 'Looks like you're going into her, Bill' . . . and jumped...
Unlike most former British ambassadors, he made a manful effort to familiarize himself with every state in the union. He hunted coyotes in Oklahoma, stood on the rim of the Grand Canyon, and had his picture taken in a fireman...