Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the Atlantique's hulk reached Cherbourg last week fire broke out at Le Havre aboard the 22-year-old France, recently withdrawn from trans-Atlantic service by the French Line as "too old." Le Havre firemen dashed aboard at 2:30 a. m., put out the blaze after two hours of smart work. At Saigon in French Indo-China the French liner Angkor was held up by a cracked propeller blade...
...labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, onetime section laborer, and President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, onetime news butcher. Three...
Barcelona firemen arrived at 11 a. m., coupled hoses to fire hydrants. There was only a trickle. It took a full hour for the Barcelona Water Works to get up fighting pressure. By that time El Siglo was a $4,000,000 bonfire, belching hundreds of feet in air, impossible to extinguish. When firemen were finally able to fight, the best they could do was wet down nearby buildings including El Banco Hispano Colonial from which cash, securities and gold had been hastily removed...
...Scotch terrier, Scotty. He got up "to raise the devil with the dog," found his house in flames. Rousing his wife, he discovered the stairway to the servants' quarters blocked, telephoned the fire department, dashed into the kitchen to unleash the dog, rushed outdoors in his night clothes. Firemen soon arrived, rescued the unconscious servants, could not save the house. Manufacturer Mennen looked around the lawn, found Scotty lying dead of smoke suffocation...
...Well, the firemen have just put a ladder to my window. I'm glad to know it's there in case I need...