Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sorest Spot in the side of organized U. S. Labor at present is the wound whence the railways extracted a 10% horizontal wage cut last year (TIME, Feb. 8). President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, speaking for the running crafts (engineers, firemen & enginemen, conductors, trainmen), served notice that while railway workers might agree to continue the reduced pay scale another year on Jan. 1, they would fight to the last ditch incipient demands for further reductions by railway management. Railway unionists will meet in Chicago Dec. 7 to consolidate their position before meeting with management representatives...
...would stay. To Macy's he would be worth it. Since he hit upon his vein of bright, saucy, it's-smart-to-be-thrifty advertisements back in 1927, Macy sales have jumped 40% to $100,000,000 annually. He made the notions department appeal to "firemen, housewives, bachelors and babies." Evening wraps were offered under the head: "WRAP HER UP AND TAKE HER HOME." His was the direction, but about-townish writers like Margaret Fishback turned out the copy. A Macy-Collins-Fishback advt. of last week: a naked "brand-new baby, hot off the griddle," yowling...
...House "not to say anything that would enable the organizers of the demonstration to pose as benefactors of the unemployed." No such thing was said (see below). Souvenir hunters, prowling over the seven-hour battlefield, collected bits of bloody rags, took snapshots of great dark stains before firemen washed them from the pavement of Boniface Street...
...Oakland, Calif., firemen discovered they could not move Invalid P. J. Evans from his burning home. They covered him with a rubber sheet, supplied him with an oxygen tank to prevent suffocation, put out the fire...
...Washington, D. C., one Joe McHale, 7, stuck his finger in a knothole, could not withdraw it. His playmates uprooted the post, took Joe. finger, post to Joe's mother. Police and firemen whittled the post away...