Word: firemanning
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...traffic along Cambridge Street. Down the hall in a library-common room another group smokes, reads Esquire and the New Yorker, occasionally studies. Off the kitchen, where a stoutish chap is raiding the refrigerator, the Bonfire Band struggles through "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in preparation for the policeman-fireman ball. And the impression that a firefighter's nine and one-half hour daily stint cannot be classified as labor is confirmed by long rows of cots in the second floor dormitory...
...down the poles, jump into their night bitches (a one-piece outfit of boots, pants, and suspenders), run for the engines, and are speeding away with screaming sirens in less than a minute. The visitor, impressed by the leisure of the station, often forgets this other part of the fireman's life: the midnight alarm, the race through crowded or icy streets, and the calm heroism obscured by heavy smoke. He forgets that there are always a couple of the men doing their loafing in the Cambridge City Hospital and that from an occasional one of the 1800 alarms...
Last week the average Londoner had a new hero as glamorous as Tommy Atkins: the British fireman...
...this chance, Carol ordered his engineer to stop for nothing. He roared through Timisoara station amid a hail of bullets which smashed many of the windows, missed occupants of the train who flung themselves on the floor, deeply scarred the armored sides of the royal private car, wounded the fireman in the locomotive...
...Deal's most agile minds wrestled with the surplus problem. One emergency solution seemed to echo the drastic days of NRA. Its sponsors: a number of New Deal braintrusters, worried businessmen, clearing through the State Department's Assistant-Secretary-at-large Adolf Augustus Berle. Economic Fireman Berle and conferees noted that in 1938 Latin America alone grossed about $1,200,000,000 from overseas sales of coffee, meat, sugar, wool, cotton, hides and skins, wheat, corn. Their idea: to form a kind of Hemispheric Surplus Commodities Corporation to buy up these surpluses, store them, sell them...