Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beautiful. Contralto Marian Anderson sang The Star-Spangled Banner. Then, as Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing delivered his long invocation, smoke began wafting from the lectern. On and on the cardinal prayed-upward and upward poured the smoke. When Cardinal Cushing finished, Dick Nixon and several other volunteer firemen rushed to the lectern. The fire was located in a short-circuited electric motor that powered the lectern; the plug was pulled and the smoke drifted away...
...tuggers in the past. But to break ranks and submit to management this time, many of the rail unionists figured, would set a precedent affecting all the old featherbedding practices that presently cost the railroads a claimed $500 million a year. Example: by contract, diesel engines must still carry firemen...
...still growing. Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini. He has measured the skinfolds (the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the "mealie-meal" eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen...
Amid a crowd of students, Cambridge firemen came to the scent to halt a fire that broke out in McCann's automobile...
...fire-resistant wiring insulation and paint. Rushing for safety, work crews found the companion-ways blocked by billowing smoke, retreated to airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they were picked up by tugboats. A coolheaded crane operator at dockside lifted more than 1,000 men off the flight deck on a portable platform. In one spectacular rescue, firemen ran up a 50-ft. vertical ladder...