Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughest jobs-mayor of New York-hard-working, onetime city cop William O'Dwyer, 59, was ordered by his doctors to Bellevue Hospital with "almost complete nervous and physical exhaustion." One indication that he was really relaxing: when a small fire in his kitchenette brought 22 firemen and a police detail swarming to his hospital suite, Hizzoner slept through...
...Deans know what they're doing. Princeton's classes emerge the most spirited alumni in the world, returning loudly each spring with firemen's uniforms and an occasional elephant--and new shekels for University coffers. Judge Harold R. Medina, a zealous reunion-booster, once appeared at an alumni festival in orange and black tights...
Shut down for 45 days, the Missouri Pacific Railroad rumbled back into operation this week after a costly strike by its 5,000 engineers, conductors, enginemen, trainmen and firemen. The nation's ninth largest railroad lost an estimated $24 million in revenues; its strikers lost some $2,250,000 in wages. Another 20,000 MoPac employees had been forced out of work, losing about...
Above & Beyond the Call. In Oregon City, Ore., firemen who reported for patrol duty at the Clackamas County fairgrounds argued strenuously with the gatekeeper, finally paid the 90? admission charge...
Eight pieces of fire equipment roared up to Kuppersmith's Florist Shop on Brattle Street last night to put out a fire which started in the fuse box. As the crowd of approximately 300 applauded politely the firemen put out the conflagration within ten minutes...