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Brave Firemen Sirs: Re: Your issue Feb. 22, Business &Finance- "Fireman's Fund," p. 83. San Francisco acquired its first paid Fire Department on Dec. 3, 1866 at which time the Volunteer Department ceased to exist after 16 years of service...
...hell couldn't he drive a mile farther into Boston so we wouldn't have to clean up this -- mess!" remarked an irate fireman who, incidentally, supplied the liquid refreshment to expectant students...
...five minutes the entire Cambridge Fire Department rumbled into the Yard. In another minute the alarm stopped ringing, and a fireman reported that somebody had neglected to turn off the hot shower in Entry A, the heat therefrom precipitating the excitement...
...Hollis the new truck was given the place of honor and the all-in-one-piece ladder was run up with eclat but unfortunately it was long by about 20 feet and wrapped itself around the roof. A shorter, old fashioned ladder did the trick, but as the fireman who stands on the back platform said, the new one "shore looks purity up there...
With 10,000 agents in the U. S. and a sprinkling in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and Arabia, Fireman's Fund is now sixth in volume of premiums among all U. S. insurance companies. Premium income on its underwritings has risen from $12,658,000 in 1933 to $16,326,000 in 1936. Fire insurance is now its smallest field, ocean marine its largest. It writes all forms of insurance except life. Mr. Levison's successor as president of the com-pany is tall, bald Yaleman Charles R. Page. 59, who has been...