Word: firemanning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congressman Gardner Robert Withrow of Wisconsin is a fourth cousin of Abraham Lincoln. Son of a Mississippi steamboat captain, he was born in La Crosse, Wis., 45 years ago, went to work after high school as a fireman for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Nineteen years later he had risen to be a conductor, got into the Wisconsin Legislature with the support of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Next he acted as the Brotherhood's lobbyist in Madison, Wis. Then in 1930 he went to Congress as a Republican...
...Ninety waited in a cleared space beside the tracks, were burned to death. Two hundred others raced down the track in another direction, met another train. As they climbed aboard, flames broke out on both sides of the track. Fire chased the train so closely that the engineer and fireman fainted, and when the train finally stopped at a lake the coaches burst into flame. But passengers tumbled into mud, were among the survivors of a day that destroyed five towns, took 413 lives...
Meanwhile, people were putting oil burners in their basements. Oil burners, compared to the ordinary coal furnace then in use, could be run almost as cheaply, more efficiently, with considerably less fuss. Grateful coalmen reflect that without Iron Fireman their entire market might have been lost to oil. Few Iron Fireman stokers were put into new homes but they were attached to old coal furnaces for less than $500 in 1926, $275 now. They conveyed the coal mechanically from the coal bin to the furnace, and because they fed it in beneath the fire instead of dumping...
...Cyrus Parker, the first Iron Fireman president, was killed in an air crash. Harry Banfield was badly hurt in the same crash, but recovered to take over. Iron Fireman has always made some kind of a profit-$484,000 is the average for the past ten years. But for two years, despite all the slighting things his salesmen have been saying about oil, Harry Banfield has been tinkering with an oil burner...
This does not mean that Mr. Banfield has lost faith in his Iron Fireman. Sales of automatic stokers are on the rise. In 1933 one automatic stoker was sold for every six oil burners; last year the proportion was one to 2.2. But he has cogent reasons for surprising his dealers: 1) About a third of Iron Fireman dealers sell oil burners as well as stokers, and he would like them to have a complete line of Iron Fireman equipment; 2) The rest of his dealers want a crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still...