Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answering an alarm from Eliot House, the Cambridge fire Department found smoke billowing out from the basement of J Entry. The reception tendered the firemen by the janitorial staff was inhospitable to the point of leaving the iron gates locked until with the aid of their newest automatic hock and ladder, the red-hatted gentry had surmounted the grill fence...
...would both emphasize safety and draw attention to themselves. They announced they would burn $75,000 worth of used cars at the fair grounds because the roads would be safer without them. At 8 p. m. Thursday evening last week the huge pile of jalopies was touched off while firemen and some 25,000 others looked on. It made a magnificent bonfire, but its value as a publicity stunt was slightly vitiated by a somewhat larger blaze half an hour earlier at Lakehurst...
...While firemen in heavy boots clumped around his study and used fire extinguishers to good advantage...
...rustle for subscriptions ($2 a year for the weekly edition). Messrs. Leche, Maestri & Weiss recently bought the money-losing Pelicans, New Orleans Club of the Southern Baseball Association, for $155,000. At the opening game they had a record crowd of more than 20,000. All New Orleans policemen, firemen and jobholders had prudently bought tickets. Mr. Weiss & friends have bought the Jacobs Candy Co. and merchants all over town are now pushing Jacobs Candy. Gambling joints, lottery shops and slot machines run vigorously, and visitors to New Orleans are surprised by the number of nickels (handy for slot machine...
...Angeles, when his house caught fire, the odor of his three goats kept Kris Krivopseh, 50. from smelling smoke. When fire engines belatedly arrived, Kris Krivopseh's goats playfully butted over firemen every time they stooped to lay hose lines. The house burned to the ground...