Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dazed but otherwise unhurt. Near by, on the concrete itself, was Sir Harry Broadhurst. His feet were broken. In a moment both airmen were in the arms of their wives who had come to cheer their return. Farther down the runway, the other greeters watched in silence as airport firemen fought the flames, and experts prepared to investigate whether mechanical or human failure had struck down the Vulcan...
Knockout Performance. In Hamlin, N.Y., during a firemen's parade, Drum Major Irving Gillam gave his baton an especially high toss, watched for it to come down, saw sparks fall instead as the baton fused to a 5,000-volt power line, knocked out village electricity for an hour and a half...
...Firemen set to work. "If you use water they may drown," said one. "But if you don't the fire will suffocate them." Fire hoses proved ineffective. Then rescuers equipped with oxygen masks, steel helmets, rubber boots and courage went 400 ft. down one of the shafts, returned with eyebrows singed, rubber boots half melted, and crying, "It is a furnace down there." Other rescuers broke out of a new and untouched shaft into one of the old galleries, brought out three bodies and one injured man. As the ambulance bore the injured man off to the hospital, women...
...tons of steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
...until well after 11 p.m., Chu went upstairs to the small room he used as a bedchamber. A few hours later, a passer-by noticed flames spurting from the lower floors of the all but empty building. He raced to turn in an alarm, but by the time the firemen arrived the whole place was ablaze. Cut off from escape by the collapse of a wooden staircase, the visiting music professor was burned to death. Thai police could not prove that the building had been purposely set afire; in fact, the local Chinese community found in the event new reason...