Word: firemanning
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Ostensibly inspired by his own experiences with municipal corruption, Flicker soon wraps his hero in red tape and delivers him to a greedy pack of policemen, firemen, city inspectors and hotshot racketeers, all seeking payoffs. The cop is a half-witted movie monster, obviously put together by graft. The fireman is a Negro with an Irish brogue. Behind them all looms the Syndicate's Mr. Big, who may or may not be the local crime commissioner...
...such factors as bank interest rates, stock dividend rates, rumors of increased Government borrowing, the state of U.S. business and the bond market's elusive "mood." Few dealers had sharper instincts or better knowledge of the market's subtle ripples than Christopher J. Devine, a New Jersey fireman's son who founded his own firm at 28. Working with a fierce intensity that seldom permitted relaxation, Chris Devine opened nine offices around the country, built a staff of more than 200, traded as much as $750 million worth of securities a day. After he died a year...
...risks of being in high risk are sizable. The death of Tyrone Power while filming Solomon and Sheba cost Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco $1,350,000. U.S. companies that had insured the manufacturers of thalidomide suffered losses when the drug proved harmful to the unborn. Insurance Co. of North America wrote $7,800,000 in premiums on aviation insurance in 1959, but lost money on the insurance because of a rash of air crashes that year. Other high-risk insurers paid off nearly $1,000,000 on the gas explosion under the stands at Indianapolis...
...least in the form we usually take them. But there are men with intelligence on ships, and you are asked to read bad novels and poems, and hear good conversation. The most biting comment I've ever heard from a Negro about his situation in America came from a fireman I met aboard the Archer. We had passed Bishop's Rock and were entering the Channel, when another US Line ship came by, and I was told to dip our flag in the customary salute. When I came forward again I passed him, and he pointed over the stern...
...turned and walked dazedly back into the shroud of smoke. In the backyard of her demolished home, a woman wandered nude and vacant-eyed, clutching a harp. Firefighters battled the blaze stubbornly, even dipped into backyard swimming pools with portable pumps for extra water. One hysterical woman seized a fireman's coat, nearly ripped it off his back as she screamed in his ear: "If there is a hell, there is a picture...