Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime requisite of a fireman is the ability to think fast in an emergency. Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation...
Every year since 1933 the four railway brotherhoods (trainmen, conductors, engineers, firemen) have got 70-car limit bills introduced into Congress. Spearhead of the drive is amiable but persistent George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, whose favorite thesis it is that railroads would have less trouble bearing the financial brunt of improved labor conditions if they had not piled up such huge funded debts while paying juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote...
...into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating for relief. Then came the power reverse gear which did the same job by air or steam-pressure released by nicking a small lever. Insisting on its installation, the Brotherhoods four years ago got the Interstate Commerce Commission to order it. Because each installation costs...
...leanings to the C. I. 0. and Bill Hutcheson hoped to prevent their defection. For Lewis came his lieutenant John Brophy "to explain" C. I. O. not only to the Woodworkers but to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (which includes not only longshoremen but sailors, engineers, radiomen, cooks, firemen -40,000 strong". In both meetings, held simultaneously in different rooms of Portland's brown brick Labor Temple, diagonally across from the city hall, the fight between C. I. O. and A. F. of L. will be fought out. The outcome may provide an answer to the question whether...
...visiting firemen, reputed to have tickled into Leverett House from Rollins and Dartmouth, relieved the exam period monotony early yesterday morning by leaping from a first floor window in Leverett and running up and down Plympton St., clad only in their underwear...