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...many years U.S. railroads have fought what seemed to be a losing battle against union-imposed featherbedding. Then last year a 15-man presidential Railroad Commission recommended the elimination of some 60.000 railroad jobs, including more than 40,000 firemen who survive the era of steam and, at union demand, ride diesel cabs with little more to do than wave at kids along the right...
...unwittingly organized this resistance by committing two early blunders. First, it hired off-duty firemen to inspect the buildings to determine if they met health and safety standards. The firemen were probably qualified to check building standards, but they could not answer the questions of anxious and frightened housewives about the renewal program itself. The question, "What's going to happen to my home and my family?" went unanswered...
...ball in the Emerson Hotel, the pace picked up. Zantzinger stung a Negro bellhop's rear with his cane. After a few bourbons and ginger at the open bar, he asked a Negro waitress, Mrs. Ethel Hill, 30, something about a firemen's fund. She said she did not know what he meant. "Don't say no to me, you nigger, say no, sir," said Zantzinger. He flailed her with the cane. She fled to the kitchen...
...raced through the house opening windows and doors; then she began rubbing her unconscious tenants' faces with cold wet towels. Shari came to and remarked: "I blacked out." The firemen had to use a resuscitator on Bob before he came around. At the emergency room of Memphis' Methodist Hospital, where the pair spent four tense days recovering, a doctor said: "Fifteen minutes later would have been too late. They would have been dead...
...Firemen's Confirmation. A quiet, careful man who runs his small-town practice with no frills (he does not even own a white coat), Dr. Cook is not the type to make a habit of long-distance diagnosis. But of Bob's letter he said: "It was a perfect case history, and a clear message to me." That message was "carbon monoxide poisoning." And 90 miles away, firemen who found a blocked furnace ventilator pipe that was forcing carbon monoxide back into the cottage made the final confirmation of Dr. Cook's diagnosis...