Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money. Inventor La France made his first fire engine in an old brick house, sold it to Elmira. It was enough to scare the horses, but it had two lines of hose and only one weakness. The cams on the pumps wore down, refused to deliver the pressure. Firemen fixed that by pouring molasses over the cams. For years a jug of molasses was regular equipment on the old "La France...
...ventilators. Death by suffocation they preferred to death by slow starvation. The owners replied: "Come out first; argue afterward." The men replied by returning all food and water sent them. Fire broke out in the mines. The Pecs Fire Department rushed in, hosed it out. The miners insisted the firemen stay down below. After three days, Hungary's bull-necked Premier Julius Gömbös sent five trade unionists down into the pit to say: "Come up within 30 minutes." Thereupon the miners added the trade unionists to their collection of hostages. Finally, after five days...
...Oakland, Calif., aroused from a nap by firemen who told her the house was on fire, old Mrs. Nettie Nelson advised them to put it out, dropped off to sleep...
...airport, ambulances and fire engines were waiting. Police, firemen, physicians stood by. Thrill-seekers by the thousand held their breath. Down into the glare of the floodlights swooped the ship, hit the earth with a thud, skidded 700 ft. on her belly in a shower of dust and sparks, ground to a stop amid cheers and applause. Damaged propellers would cost Northwest Airlines $50 to repair, but unbroken was the company's proud record of eight years without a single passenger fatality...
Inside the plant two dozen peace officers and firemen tried to think. Assistant Fire Chief James Bolz had an idea. He telephoned to nearby California Institute of Technology, pleaded for an explosives expert. In a few minutes a lone automobile slid to a stop at the scene. Out stepped Professor William Noble Lacey, the brisk embodiment of Science, to the rescue...