Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the alarm rings at night; in addition to opening the doors and changing the lights, it turns on all the lights, it turns on all the lights inside the station. This is accomplished by an inside alarm system which arouses the sleeping fire-fighters. But the firemen are not awakened without sufficient reason, for a selective device refuses to allow the inside alarm to ring unless the call comes from within the district covered by the Central Fire Station...
...their beds tumble the firemen, over the smooth composition floor, and into the cedar-lined closets to get their uniforms. These closets are fitted with a device which turns on the lights inside when the doors are opened. And then as they rush to board the engines they put into use another one of the many novel features of the building. These are no ordinary poles the firemen slide down to reach the first floor. Built of shiny brass, and hung from a steel framework the slide poles have aluminum shutters which open when a man's weight...
...speak of your labor problems again, Cambridge; don't mention unemployment after the dismal swamps your ditch-ways have been this last week. The only men working appeared to be the step-fathers of local firemen, or past grand commanders of the Elks Lodge. If there were jobs for twenty, Cambridge found one--but he had to have a son-in-law in the county jail or the mayor's office...
...courts building. All Kemal's fire engines and all his men had not saved the archives holding all Turkey's legal documents from the time of the early Sultans to 1923. Muck were the old debts, the old judgments, the cash reserves. What Turkish firemen had not done, it appeared last week that Turkish melons...
...rather be a fireman than a policeman in the winter, because firemen wear boots," revealed Hugh O'Connell, now appearing at the Metropolitan in a shortened version of "The First Little Show." Mr. O'Connell can be quoted as an authority on the subject of policemen and fireman, having portrayed one of New York's finest in "Face the Music" and now appearing as the cultured fireman in the "Little Show." "But in the summer I'd rather be a policeman, because their uniforms are lighter. To tell the truth, I really don't care about the matter. Boston policemen...