Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour and rail was the only convenient mode of transportation. Train crews now need travel only 100 miles to earn a full day's pay; an engineer making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent of the time for which they are paid...
...vintage fire engine, and reportedly entertained such celebrities as his friend the master swindler Serge Rubinstein, and some of Mickey Jelke's choicer, $100-a-night call girls. "I always took a big interest in the volunteer fire department in New Hope," said Old Fire Buff Birrell. "Volunteer firemen are a great thing in rural America." He also liked the autumn hunting. But "my house and nine-acre farm are in litigation now. They took it from me; nobody will get anything except the lawyers...
...children, and Mrs. Schlesinger Jr. may use hers for a still life. Though the University affects all faculty wives its impact varies. The wives of the Masters, department chairmen, and administrative officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners, and graduate and undergraduate meetings is theirs. Others elect a university affiliation: the Drs. Rudolph teach a course together on Indian Government and the Handlins work together on research. Mrs. Galbraith teaches German at the College while Mrs. Fainsod is currently working as a research assistant to Professor...
...they wish to eliminate featherbedding, have a free hand in introducing automation, and, in short, exercise the administrative prerogatives they believe belong to management. The cases of featherbedding produced by management have been few and inconclusive; they are not industry-wide complaints--such as the railroads have against firemen in deisel engines--but specific instances that can be settled by arbitration. As for the general management desire to regain more control over work rules, most unionists feel that this is a reaction to the days of finks and company unions. Considering the progress made under present regulations, the company demand...
...Cambridge fire chief, four engines, at least eight University policemen, and 12 firemen descended on Mather Hall of Leverett House at 10.10 p.m. Saturday night to extinguish a small blaze caused by a burning sofa...