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...They came to nothing. This week, 18 hours before the strike deadline, Harry Truman seized the roads to prevent "a nationwide tragedy." He put Secretary of the Army Royall in charge of the railways, ordered the Army to operate them. Then he gave the three stubborn brotherhoods-the engineers, firemen and switchmen-until 5 o'clock that afternoon to call off the strike...
Past Master. In Culver City, Calif., seven firemen on a fire truck dashed to a manhole fire, stood by as their captain, Bob Lowry, put it out with...
...other visiting firemen from up north did no better than the Varsity against their ferocious southern hosts. New England kingpin Dartmouth succombed by 17-12 to the same Terrapins who tripped the Crimson...
...firemen, aided by two hook an ladder squads which had just arrived on the scene, were laying several hoses down the main aisle. Tom Cronin, the bartender and Jim Haunegan, the cook, were taking turns shoveling ordinary table salt on the fire...
Cambridge firemen answered a phoned alarm at 8:33 o'clock, sending six engines and a rescue squad to the scene. A crew quickly chopped through the hall wall and extinguished the smouldering mass in short order...