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...Bleeding and burned, Baldwin managed to open the cockpit escape hatch, dropped to the ground, staggered dazedly away. Rain began streaming down as the flames soared up in 50-ft. tongues. Baldwin started back-there were 47 people inside-and was held back by the gathering crowd. Firemen drove a fire engine through a wooden fence, attacked the fire. Then the hero of the crash-a 38-year-old New Yorker named Edward McGrath-arrived. He grabbed an ax, waded into the furnace heat, chopped a hole in the broken plane's duraluminum skin. He squeezed in & out seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holocaust at LaGuardia | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...After years of trying to discourage motorists who chase their trucks. Tipton (Iowa) firemen got even. A fire engine with siren screaming led 100 hot-eyed drivers into the Cedar County fair grounds, kept them circling the track until it was packed hard enough for some midget automobile races the department had sponsored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...morale of Hoboken police, firemen and teachers sank lower & lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The McFeely | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...contagious of all diseases, there is only one effective protection-vaccination. New York Health Commissioner Israel Weinstein promptly warned New Yorkers who had not been vaccinated within five years to get vaccinated. He also set to work to protect all the city's employees, rounded up for vaccination firemen, subway workers, social workers, policemen, hospital staff members, 1,000 guests in the city's flophouse. Some 2,500 patients who had been discharged from a city hospital during LeBar's stay there were called back for vaccination. Thousands of New Yorkers queued up at vaccination centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bus Ride to Manhattan | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...minutes earlier Frank had stepped on the starter and saw flames shooting out of the ventilators. With one breath he called for a fire truck. The bucket did the trick, but the vehicles decided to come along for the ride anyhow. Then, while firemen kibitzed, the amazed student stepped on his starter again and the motor started turning over like a precision watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balky Ford Calls Out Band of Firefighters | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

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