Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flames roared through the Great Ballroom and the bedchambers in which slept Edward of Wales on his last visit (TIME, Nov. 28. 1932). "Come on, boys!" roared the Fire Chief. "Carry out what you can before the roof goes!" As firemen, villagers and servants darted through the smoke, lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid...
...mass protest. While they vowed defiance to Adolf Hitler's minions, capless and unribboned students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!" At this the nabobs attacked, starting the bloodiest riot seen in years at Gottingen. To stop it shocked professors called the police who called firemen who rushed to the scene with all Gottingen's fire engines and restored order by heroic squirting...
...cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads had been moved safely to a nearby warehouse. Strikers, 3,000 strong, failed to stop the movement. Police fought them off with tear gas, firemen with streams of water. Heads were broken, 26 men were injured, but the only trucks stopped were those of some non-combatants not plying to and from the docks...
...trainmen. Dentists (82%) and doctors (80%) were not far ahead of their nurses. Male factory workers ranked ahead of traveling salesmen (69%). Lawyers with 61% are as good a risk as female factory workers and only a shade better than auto mechanics, tenant farmers, brick masons and janitors. Policemen, firemen, track walkers and coal miners are all more honest than college students (56%), who are in about the same class as servants and carpenters. There is not much choice between hotel help, restaurant help, common labor and automobile salesmen (47%). It is a toss-up between barbers and truck drivers...
...Britain was as shocked as the constable. Did Sussex nurture another Dillinger? Was Worthing to be the Chicago of the Downs? The County armed. Huge Webley & Scott revolvers were issued to the local police, a fact that produced eight column headlines in the London Press. Brass-helmeted firemen were mobilized. Hundreds of volunteers scoured the hedgerows and lanes in cars and on chugging motor bikes. Unasked, Sir Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts joined the man hunt...