Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Head. In New Bedford, Mass., enraged after an argument with his wife, Floyd L. Ostrander, 52. burned down their storage barn, tried unsuccessfully to set fire to the house, ripped out the telephone wires so that firemen could not be called...
Airport officials suddenly realized that the Auster, trimmed for flight and with a tank full of gas, might cause trouble. Sydney's Civil Aviation authorities were alerted. Radio warnings were broadcast, incoming airliners were warned, while police, firemen, ambulances and air force crash boats stood by. Tens of thousands of Sydneysiders came out to gape with delight as the plane climbed to 6,000 ft. and dipped seaward...
...telephone wire between the Prime Minister's residence and Balmoral Castle, Queen Elizabeth II last week proclaimed a "state of emergency" in Britain. Reason: the nationwide railway strike that had halted four out of five trains on the nationalized railway system. Close to 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen struck May 29 for a wage increase that would add little to their weekly pay packets but would preserve the differential between their "skilled" wage rate and that of nearly 400,000 railroad workers including porters, signalmen and gandy dancers...
...midnight, in the middle of the annual three-day Whitsun holiday migration, the first important railroad strike since 1926 hit Great Britain. Seeking better pay, about 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen left their jobs on the nationalized railroads. Rejecting government appeals to stay on the job, the strikers ground all regular trains to a halt...
Smoke billowed forth from the Sage Building on Church St. yesterday, as fire ravaged the five business establishments located there. About 500 persons gathered to witness the Cambridge firemen battle the blaze, which left behind damages estimated unofficially...