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...Deans know what they're doing. Princeton's classes emerge the most spirited alumni in the world, returning loudly each spring with firemen's uniforms and an occasional elephant--and new shekels for University coffers. Judge Harold R. Medina, a zealous reunion-booster, once appeared at an alumni festival in orange and black tights...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Shut down for 45 days, the Missouri Pacific Railroad rumbled back into operation this week after a costly strike by its 5,000 engineers, conductors, enginemen, trainmen and firemen. The nation's ninth largest railroad lost an estimated $24 million in revenues; its strikers lost some $2,250,000 in wages. Another 20,000 MoPac employees had been forced out of work, losing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: After 45 Days | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Above & Beyond the Call. In Oregon City, Ore., firemen who reported for patrol duty at the Clackamas County fairgrounds argued strenuously with the gatekeeper, finally paid the 90? admission charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Eight pieces of fire equipment roared up to Kuppersmith's Florist Shop on Brattle Street last night to put out a fire which started in the fuse box. As the crowd of approximately 300 applauded politely the firemen put out the conflagration within ten minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire in Square | 10/23/1949 | See Source »

...Missouri, officials of the Missouri Pacific and its striking engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors still stared at one another in stony silence. Since the railway unions called out their workers three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 19), both sides had steadfastly refused to yield an inch. During that time, MoPac had lost more than $12 million in revenue. Most of its customers were being taken care of by trucks, buses and competing rail lines. But in Arkansas, 55 factories employing almost 3,500 persons were closed because of the MoPac shutdown; farmers in the Kansas City area reported heavy losses because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Helicopter & Forbidden Fruit | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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