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Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, which had been stuck in New York during the coal strike, got stuck again-this time in Boston, while a baby giraffe was born in a tent. In Lancaster, Pa., city firemen were routed out at 4:30 a.m., had to couple up long hoses to water a trainload of 2,000 thirsty hogs. There was chicken trouble, too-hundreds of automatic incubators were hatching thousands of eggs every hour. Unable to ship the new arrivals, owners gloomily planned mass drownings...
...outdone in this race for civic glory, the firemen went and renamed another thoroughfare: "Street in Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fire Brigade...
...other parts of Brazil, the anti-Communist drive continued. The Government, in breaking up a strike against the Leopoldina Railway staged by $25 a month firemen, blamed the work stoppage on Communist "millionaire Luis Carlos Prestes." Brazilian democrats hoped that heavy-handed Dutra, in stamping out Communism, would not also crush democracy...
...International Longshoremen's & Ware housemen's Union, the American Communications Association, the Inland Boatmen's Union, the Na tional Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, the National Maritime Union and the National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards (all C.I.O.), and the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Water-tenders and Wipers (independent...
...Yorkton's three hotels were snapped up, empty cells in the jail were used. Private citizens rented their spare rooms, put four farmers in a bed. But hundreds of the invaders had to sleep in their cars, or nowhere. Cars were so jammed in one Yorkton street, that firemen had to detour to reach a fire...