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Word: firemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightning bolt crackled into a rack house full of 100-proof whisky and started a fire that quickly spread to three other buildings. In all, 40,000 barrels-equal to 8,000,000 fifths-of Good Old Guckenheimer, and Bourbon Supreme and other brands were destroyed. Firemen stood helplessly outside a ring of flames so intense that a coal pile 100 yards away began to smolder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Disaster at the Distillery | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...grey cloud rise from the plant and thought it looked mushroom-shaped. Mothers gathered their children, put the little ones into baby buggies and trundled them through traffic across the Chester River Bridge. There Chestertown's southbound refugees tangled with rescuers headed north-civil defense disaster units, firemen and police from neighboring towns, the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and the National Guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Rockets over Chestertown | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Firewater. In Newark, Roger Maturin, 28, told firemen and police why he had turned in 28 false alarms over two weekends: "All I need is two beers, maybe three, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Command Decision. In Central Valley, Calif., when a fire alarm interrupted the crowning of the queen at the annual Firemen's Ball, Chief Earl Stevens dispatched all his men to quell the blaze, stayed on himself to complete the coronation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...divorce in 1952 from Tobacco Heir Richard J. Reynolds Jr., sang a $35,000 swan song. Soon off to luxuriate in California, Marianne said farewell to Florida in the style to which Reynolds had accustomed her. Under the bleak gaze of ten gate-guarding cops, 160 servants, two firemen and some 15 dinner-jacketed plainclothesmen who mingled but did not fraternize, about 300 guests jammed for warmth (evening temperature: 48°) into two satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne's lawn. They guzzled 200 bottles of pink champagne (price: $11 a fifth) and torrents of other beverages, ate their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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