Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hellzapoppin. In Chicago, after a blaze broke out in the lower depths of a restaurant known as Dante's Inferno and roared through its upper floors, ax-bearing firemen got at the flames by chopping their way past a large wooden figure of Satan guarding the entrance...
...passenger trains 20 m.p.h. Today it means that a railroader can do his day's work in as little as two hours. ¶ Wipe out the distinction between the work performed by road crews and yard crews, thereby allowing full interchange of labor without duplicated effort. ¶ Eliminate firemen's jobs on diesels and other non-steam locomotives in freight service and switchyards to realize a saving of $200 million a year. ¶ Allow management only to stipulate the number of required crew members. ¶ End rules requiring idle stand-by operating employees when self-propelled equipment...
...more serious objection to the old seats was that they were of wood. With the great crowds that football and baseball attracted the weak wooden stands were no longer safe. And there was the ever-present danger of fire. The H.A.A. had a crew of firemen and often a fire engine at every contest. During the spring of 1903, only the quick thinking of an usher avoided disaster when a section of the grandstand caught fire during a baseball game. The heroic usher restrained a panicked spectator from spreading the alarm through the packed stands...
...masked Cambridge firemen hauled away an old refrigerator which routed students from C-entry of Dunster House early this morning. Escaping sulfur dioxide, from a broken tube in the relic, spread from the fourth floor to the basement, creating a mild panic among the Dunster ranks...
...football games or concerts wonder about "the gray-haired man who plays trumpet." He is Paul A. Touchette, a member of the Cambridge Fire Department; he is not only a bonefiede member of the Band but also its only honorary lifetime concert master. In the forties Cambridge firemen occasionally played with the Harvard Band, but only Touchette has remained...