Word: firemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hottest days of the summer, a parade of about 5,000-military and naval units, city employees, policemen, firemen and seven bands under limp silk flags-marched up Broadway. In front of City Hall, party bosses, military commanders, the consuls of some 50 foreign nations, City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, the mayor's pretty wife in an aqua velveteen hat, and Bill O'Dwyer arrayed themselves on a hastily constructed platform. Seven policemen and an octogenarian deputy fire commissioner collapsed in the heat. O'Dwyer presented Grover Whalen with a $450 gold medal for "extraordinary public service...
...Visiting Firemen. In Syracuse, N.Y., John F. Blomberg and William S. Klinke of Central Islip, N.Y., delegates to the State Volunteer Firemen's Association convention, pleaded guilty to a charge of turning in a false fire alarm...
...housewives in his campaigning ("Here's a bill," said Orville. "It's customary to pay these to hold . . . jobs."), and then he had the chief make his whole department hose down the streets one morning at 3 a.m.; this made the chief so unpopular with the firemen that he had to quit. When the Dearborn Press turned against the mayor, Publisher William Klamser's personal property assessment was jacked...
Bernard Baruch was positive that the U.S. people were ready for price controls. Who opposed them? he demanded. "The millions whose savings will be reduced if inflation continues? The millions of teachers, firemen, policemen, nurses, civil servants, and others with fixed incomes? Old-age pensioners? Workers who find their real wages cut by rising living costs? Farmers who find the cost of the things they must buy mounting...
...Manhattan, a worried Fire Department official complained that TV rooftop antennas are a hazard to firefighters. Firemen not only trip over the wires, they also have their hats knocked off by the dipoles, thus "leaving them in danger from falling debris if they have to work bareheaded...