Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Naval Hospital where Captain Butler is commanding officer, he keeps a stack of logs and a collection of axes. Some axes are single-bitted, some double-bitted. Others are firemen's axes. The axes which Captain Butler uses are short-helved 3½ or 4 pounders. Longest convenient length for ax and handle is 16 in. A greater length interferes with the tumble of the ax on its way from hand to target...
...election was 25- year-old Fortney Stark, onetime secretary of the Real Estate Board. Said he: "This recall movement is the culmination of three years' steadfast refusal to adjust the expenditures of the city government to meet declining revenues." The recallers favored a 25% wage cut for teachers, firemen, policemen...
Just off the coastal juncture of Virginia and Maryland lies small, picturesque Chincoteague Island. Sportsmen know it as a good place to go for fishing and duck-shooting. And once a year, during its Volunteer Firemen's Carnival, Chincoteague stages the East's only wild horse roundup. Last week came this "Pony Penning...
...important municipal official to attend. The polite guests did not refer to their host city's negligence. They called her not by name, but more than one of them took digs at the type of municipal financing Chicago has done, particularly ''borrowing" from schoolteachers and firemen by foisting on them payless pay days. Chief causes of city financial trouble as diagnosed by the conference...
...discoveries to its employes. Pituitary and ovarian disorders have been found more often than any others among railroad employes. Correction of these has not been difficult and has resulted in reducing absenteeism among female employees and in saving the jobs of some others-not only women but also some firemen and engineers...