Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the President pondered this problem on the Rapidan, in the Capital 100 mi. away was occurring just the sort of thing that had been predicted. Fire broke out in "Tempo No. 4" quartering the Federal Trade Commission, burned savagely for three hours, gutted the tindery building, injured 20 firemen, destroyed countless Government files and documents.* Lost or damaged were the Trade Commission's records of investigations into chain stores, newsprint, power companies, cottonseed, peanuts. Replacement of some of the data from outside sources was possible, though slow and difficult. The destruction of "Tempo No. 4" gave President Hoover...
...outhouse, lit a cigaret, dropped the match down the sewer. Benzine in the sewer exploded,, leaped out and seared John Moyer, ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer was expected...
Died. Timothy ("Tim") Healy, 67, Irish-born U. S. trades union leader, long-time (1903-27) international president of the Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen, Oilers; political supporter of Theodore Roosevelt and of Alfred Emanuel Smith; of a heart attack after swimming on a hot day; in his sleep, at Ocean Grove...
...West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted his arms, gracefully dived off to join his dying family...
...Firemen...