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Word: firemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Congress of Labor "supersede and embrace" A. F. of L., C. I. 0., and the hitherto independent Big Four railroad brotherhoods (Engineers, Firemen & Enginemen, Railway Conductors, Trainmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I Am Counting On You | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Jose, Calif, were surprised, one day last month, to see him chopping down the trees and shrubs around his two-room cottage, surprised next to see him move all his belongings out of the house and padlock the doors, surprised next to see smoke curling out of the building. Firemen came in time to save the framework but Edward Murphy's cottage was as good as destroyed. When police arrested him for violating the arson law, he was indignant. The nearest house was 100 feet from his. Having no insurance, he was perpetrating no fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Home Fire | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...firemen of Woburn, Mass, had their collective pay cut $7,600 last year for economy's sweet sake. The Mayor of Woburn is William E. Kane, and his brother Michael is fire chief. Last week Woburn's firemen, all but the chief, sued

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Men of Fire | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Woburn's firemen's beds & bedding left the firehouse, smoke arose. The sleeping equipment was on fire. The red-faced firemen applied chemical extinguishers but Mayor Kane was there with the crowd. Cried he: "I ask you now, are those men worth $42 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Men of Fire | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...sponge-rubber shock absorber to be placed at the bottom of brass poles down which firemen slide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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