Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collector Haffenreffer's agents roamed through country villages and old storerooms picking up examples of every type. Some of the best go back to New England craftsmen who specialized in one-of-a-kind carvings: turbaned sultans and fez-topped Turks, girls in daring short skirts, ballplayers, cops, firemen, sailors and even replicas of store owners, as well as Indian sachems. After 1850, the demand was so great that some of the more popular models were in mass production...
Lessons I to 6. In Giessen, Germany, Firemen R. Bornschein, Werner Schepp and Helmut Glund were sentenced to four months for arson after admitting that they set fire to six straw piles "to show the new fire chief what it means to be a fireman...
...first alarm brought six fire trucks roaring down Cambridge's streets. Crowds of students watched the battling firemen confine the flames to one room. Although the blaze could not escape the room in which it started, smoke oozed under doors and through windows and caused serious damage to other rooms. The fire brought no damage to nearby buildings...
...dash to Chicago and a huge fire in the grain elevators kept the action moving. The fire swung from beam to beam, as its roar came through the loud speaker. Tiny firemen hurled huge geysers of water, in a futile attempt to stop the blaze...
...well." Headquarters was a rented office in Peoria's dingy Union Station; customers were practically nonexistent. Equipment was run down and morale was low. Russ Coulter, a Colby College graduate and a veteran railroader from the St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., perked things up. Soon firemen were out on the tracks, voluntarily working at laborers' wages to put the roadbed in shape...