Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When fire flared in a private garage next door to his Evanston (Ill.) residence, Charles Gates Dawes stomped out into bitter cold, cheered the firemen...
...Ziegler, Ill., the town council decreed that of its twelve firemen, only the first four to arrive at a fire will be paid the usual...
...plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...
...clothing smoking and his coal afire, Driver Wilson departed in bewilderment. Firemen later extinguished the blaze. By the smoldering bed they found the charred bodies of two Negro men, one Negro woman, all devout disciples of Harlem's bald little Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, May 27, March n, et ante...
...morning last week fire engines clanged down Pennsylvania Avenue to the new $10,000,000 Post Office Building. In a huge windowless room on the sixth floor of the building a fire had started among old files. Unable to attack it properly through the one door of the room, firemen chopped holes through the eight-inch concrete ceiling, poured in water which cascaded down to the lower floors, ruined the paneling in Postmaster General Farley's swank reception room. Washington firefighters, some 40 of whom were overcome by smoke, were bitter because they have to put out fires...