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...Bottom. Firemen stretched aerial ladders to the ship's sides, played hoses on people burning alive at the rails. One man climbed down, moaning "No, no, no, no!" He fought police who tried to lead him away from the pier, shouted: "I've got seven people on that ship!" Another had a grisly blob stuck to his hands: he had tried to beat out the flames in a woman's hair, had come away with part of her scalp...
...Sept. 15, 1946, the first of the 229 houses of her (George Washington) Carver Manor went on sale at $11,400 and $11,200 each. Some 500 Negroes swarmed over the lot. Most buyers had steady jobs as schoolteachers, policemen and firemen, were good credit risks, earned enough to furnish their homes comfortably and keep them in good repair. Mrs. Grant signed up 110 buyers the first day, had waiting lines for weeks. She is now building an additional 33 units and a $140,000 shopping center for a new 95-house annex to Carver Manor, besides the bigger...
Lark? In Knoxville, Tenn., firemen ministered to a pigeon which had eaten too many ripe cherries, fallen out of a tree...
...fire on the roof of Radcliffe's Whitman Hall yesterday morning destroyed four mattreases and a section of the roof's railing before grounds maintenance men and firemen arrived...
...Firemen believed sparka from the incinerator which lit upon sun-bathing mattresses, started the blaze...