Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire first broke out in the bakery. Before firemen could chop down the door, it was licking up through the gleaming white superstructure. Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not yet unloaded; fireboats poured tons of water into her blazing bowels, rigged webs of cables to keep her upright at the pier. Toward morning, with her red-hot sides sending out great clouds of steam, the Paris crankily listed to port, snapped the cables like twine, heeled over on her side...
...London County Council, created by the Local Government Act of 1888, set about tidying up London. This spring a considerably more livable London is celebrating the L. C. C.'s jubilee with all manner of polite and showy functions, not the least of which will be a firemen's parade in June for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. To add its voice to the general huzza, the Gas Light and Coke Co. this month released in London a 20-minute documentary film called The Londoners, sketching London life from Dickens' day to the present...
...Huntington, W. Va., firemen were ordered to "take it easy" on their way to fires. Reason: the fire-engine tires were threadbare...
...notes the pine tree growing in granite near Buford, Wyo.-in the early days of the Union Pacific, railroad firemen saw the struggling tree, kept it alive by emptying buckets of water on it as the trains passed. It retells the story of Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before...
...night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...