Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles County, firemen razed 435 badly damaged buildings. Insurance companies handled claims as quickly as they could get reports from their investigators, but motorists whose cars had been mutilated by falling wreckage found to their sorrow that earthquake hazard is not covered by standard automobile insurance...
Pushing into Long Beach, reporters found that that town was hardest hit. A theatre, the Woodrow Wilson High School, the Press-Telegram building were wrecked. Two firemen were crushed in their firehouse. Fifty-one citizens were dead. The Seaside Hospital had partially collapsed, killing ten patients. Doctors treated hundreds in the streets, operated under automobile headlights on people lying on litters which still trembled with the ceaseless subterranean labor. Death and injury came in weird forms. Many people hurt themselves leaping from windows. An expectant mother, pulled from wreckage, died as her baby was born...
...Enter the Court of Honor built on Pennsylvania Avenue to review the six-mile parade composed of soldiers, sailors, marines, troopers, national guardsmen, high school cadets, 25 governors, visiting firemen, police squads, G. A. R. veterans (one car), C. S. A. veterans (five cars), American Legionaries, Gold Star Mothers, Boy Scouts, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, real Indians,Tammany Indians and merrymaking Democrats by the thousand...
...Toronto last week one Fred Shipley did a jigsaw puzzle while his apartment burned. Forcibly ejected by firemen. Puzzler Shipley finished his puzzle under a blanket on the sidewalk...
...that 200 to 400 men had returned to work was denied by the strike committee. At noon the deadline passed. Employment gates were thrown open to all applicants. Fearful for their skins, Detroit's jobless hung back. One man who tried to enter the gates was badly beaten. Firemen screwed up their hoses, stood ready to squirt at the first whisper of riot...