Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support for the railroads' rate plea finally came last week from the "Big Four" Brotherhoods (Railway Conductors, Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Trainmen, Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen). Mindful of the carriers' threat to cut wages unless they won a rate increase, the presidents of these potent labor organizations jointly declared that they felt "such action will have a beneficial effect on general business conditions...
...Firemen had to batter down bolted gates before they could get into the yard, put up their ladders, fight the flames. On the dark lawn were laid the dead and dying, with priests moving up and down administering the last sacrament. The dead: 40. Injured...
Fire destroyed the luxurious 23-room Manhattan apartment of President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. It was closed for the summer while Mr. Kelley & family were in Butte, Mont. Strange sulphurous fumes overcame seven firemen. Estimated loss...
...Author DeLamater ticks off her items you begin to see what lies behind the demolition of the old schoolhouse, Dressmaker Willow's "handsome diploma from the Sims School of Dressmaking," the Young Men's Club ball in Firemen's Hall. Like its skeletal column, Personals comes to no conclusion, merely ends; but the author has padded the skeleton, dressed it up into an ingenious semblance of life...
...Princeton baseball team. Frank Bowman pitching: a game against Yale, 3-1, preceded by parades of Princeton alumni dressed as soldiers, sailors, legionaries, firemen, cowboys, policemen, toreadors, big game hunters...