Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in Mill Valley, rich householders and poor looked upward in common alarm. From across the bay San Franciscans could see the reddened, angry sky, the fire marching down the mountainside. Around the bay went the alarm, brought boats with firemen, U. S. Rangers, soldiers from three forts, small boys, milkmen, millionaires hustling...
Threatened Strike. Locomotive engineers on the Missouri Pacific R. R. and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis took a strike vote as the result of a three-sided dispute on the representation of grievances involving the carriers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen. Similar strike votes were predicted for the Santa Fé, the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific on the same issue, with the possibility of a spread of the trouble to eastern and southern systems. The U. S. Board of Mediation girded itself to prevent a big rail strike...
...apparatus arrived. No arrest was made. The Mayor was merely testing a new device calculated to make life more difficult for false alarmists, who, in New York City alone, call for firemen 8,000 times a year, at $300 a call. When Mayor Walker turned the handle a siren screeched at passersby, a camera on the pole over-head snapped his picture several times for the Rogues Gallery. Photographers pleaded with him to do it again...
Last week Chicago officials admitted that the city faced bankruptcy, that it had borrowed up to the legal limit on anticipated revenue, that only a Businessman's Commission could prevent financial disaster. Taxes were far behind because of assessments rank with favoritism. Fifty thousand city employes, chiefly firemen and policemen, were threatened with a prolonged suspension of pay. The extravagance of the Thompson administration was directly blamed. The Businessman's Commission, said the Chicago Tribune, was "a confession of moral and intellectual bankruptcy which is far more serious than fiscal bankruptcy...
...They're all gassed. It's film gas," he cried on seeing the victims. "Clear the way. Give them more air. Have we oxygen enough? Firemen, more firemen!" Dr. John Phillips, another of the founders of the Clinic left the wrecked building after working long among the victims. He started to walk home, collapsed...