Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday afternoon four Business School men invested a $15 down-payment in a refrigerator. Within three hours six firemen had burst into their Mellon Hall room knocked down the back door and carried the machine...
Last week, to the amplified tune of Goodnight, Irene, the blue station wagon blared its way around Chicago's South and Southwest Sides. At the giant Crane Co., Douglas shook hands with a group of independent union workers picketing the plant. He ate lunch with the firemen of Hook & Ladder Truck 41, to whom he admitted that he was feeling pretty stiff and sore. He had slipped and fallen that morning taking his bath. Spike pleaded with him to lie down and rest. The Senator napped for two ho.urs at the firehouse. Then he was off again with...
Around the periphery of the conflagration, firemen would set up mobile stations, try to supplement the inadequate and ruptured water supply with water pumped from the island's flanking rivers. Policemen would make their way into the devastated area, directing squads of mechanics who would turn off gas mains, burn through tangled girders, tunnel into debris after the entombed. Health department squads would penetrate into the dust-thick hell, monitoring radioactivity. Rescue squads and equipment would be ordered to the scene from undamaged, outlying communities...
...Firemen had made some plans, but the city's Acting Fire Commissioner Nathan Horwitz observed fatalistically: "We won't be much good at handling radiological work until we've tried." A statewide mutual aid plan was being developed, but some firemen were not too enthusiastic about it; some were even a little resentful. Said B. Richter Townsend, state fire boss: "I can't blame the boys up at Poughkeepsie for being mad when I tell them they're going to have to be ready to send five of their six engines to New York...
...Firemen carried Rodman out by stretcher and took him to Stillman Infirmary, where he will be held for X-rays...