Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt cortege drove through Oklahoma City, out of the crowd toward the President's car ran a tattered figure. Firemen and National Guardsmen fell upon the man, pummeled him until the Secret Service identified him as harmless Woody Hockaday, 52, Kansas eccentric who two years ago, shouting "Feathers instead of bullets!" burst a bag of feathers in the office of Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). This time eccentric Hockaday's idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel...
...firemen of the town of Coimbra. about 150 miles north of Lisbon, decided last week to hold a realistic drill. Hundreds of spectators, out to celebrate Portugal's Holy Queen religious festival, gathered, and 20 youngsters, many of them sons of the firemen, clambered into an old four-story frame building. The boys were paid 45? to play the part of "tenants." The firemen, having doused the structure with gasoline, retired to their station 400 yards away to await the alarm...
...torch was applied, the alarm sounded, the firefighters raced to the rescue. Before they could get their water into play, however, the flames had leaped up the wooden walls, roared through the whole flimsy structure. Panic-stricken onlookers, running away, got in the firemen's way. Two boys were burned alive, eight jumped screaming to their deaths on the ground. Four were so seriously burned that they died later in the hospital...
...Mesabi Range of Minnesota, is a town without visible means of support. Its three iron mines are closed. Most of its employed inhabitants are on the public payroll, supported by local taxes on the closed mines. Some 175 are on WPA. The village employs another 150 as policemen, firemen, street cleaners, librarians. The school board gives jobs to 55 teachers, some 200 janitors (one for every three pupils), each of whom works three to ten days a month. The Gilbert Herald is supported by $4,000 of public printing work...
...twelve hours the fire raged, go feet below the river surface, 70 feet from shore, fought hopelessly by sand hogs with hand extinguishers, firemen who braved the terrific pressure to attack it with hoses. After a grim night of defeat, tunnel engineers resorted to extraordinary tactics. Slowly, pound by pound, they began reducing the air pressure in the fire-swept section. Just as slowly, the air wall gave way and the river it had been holding out began to muck in. In half an hour, it half-filled the section, doused the fire...