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...economic calamity. The argument between Tories and Socialists is not whether the welfare state is a good or bad thing; the scramble is for the credit of having invented it. No British politician would now suggest abolishing it, any more than he would suggest abolishing state-paid policemen or firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Osmosis in Queuetopia | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Students offered to come to the rescue of parched New Yorkers, and firemen came to the rescue of scorched students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Term Keeps Yard, Square on Their Toes | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Nine fire engines, 24 firemen, the Cambridge police, and the House superintendent descended on Lowell House A entry at 6:45 a.m. yesterday. Thirty minutes later they departed, leaving behind them a smouldering couch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smouldering Sofa Brings Fire Dept. To Lowell House | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

Lewis and his roommates tried to extinguish the blazing couch but had to leave the job to the horde of firemen who swarmed over the room with axes, flashlights, and a hose. Local urchins assumed salvage rights at 7:20 a.m. when firemen heaved the couch out the window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smouldering Sofa Brings Fire Dept. To Lowell House | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

Suddenly, the cold wind blew music and more motorcycles up Boylston Street. An Army band appeared and forced the firemen into retirement. Then there were jeeps and soldiers and sailors and marines and a half-track and more jeeps and a marine band and four fighter planes that kept flying back and forth...

Author: By Alex C. Hoagland, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 1/17/1950 | See Source »

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