Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio but immediately seized his coat and followed the fire engines. It turned out that some of the scaffolding in Eliot House, of which Professor Merriman is to be master, had caught on fire. There are 971 rooms in the new building, and students attracted by the blaze bothered firemen and the police by peering from the windows into the courtyard. They were admonished to throw no bricks. No bricks were thrown, but damage resulted when an incautious chauffeur carelessly removed the rear end of an opposing fire-wagon...
...firemen, defending themselves from the cheers of the Freshmen, who attended in a body, baptised the gathering, while students strolled about, souvenir hunting. Several squadrons of policemen, fearing an informal repetition of Saturday night's affair, also attended in a body. As silently as they had come, the fire engines withdrew at 10.19 o'clock...
...Supreme Court of Panama met and conferred supreme authority to preserve order and defend the Republic upon Fire Chief Juan Antonio Guizado and his firemen, who in firefight ing regalia at once took up strategic posts in Panama City...
...printers flying for exits. Flames shot up the elevator shaft, mushroomed out through the four stories of the old triangular building. Some of the 35 occupants fought their way out through halls and stairways; others made for the fire escapes. One linotype operator, Joseph Douglass, did not wait for firemen to raise a ladder, jumped from the third floor, died of his injuries. Two hundred firemen, working with ice-sheathed apparatus in a high wind, prevented the fire from spreading beyond the busy corner of Hanover & Lombard Streets. But the Post building was completely wrecked...
...Such as: Railroad Signalmen, Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers & Helpers, Railway Carmen, Firemen & Oilers, Train Despatches, Clerks & Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes. †The eight-hour work day was set by the Adamson Law (1916) under threat of a national rail strike...