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Internal Revenue agents slapped a lien on belongings of Edna E. Booten. income tax consultant, charged that she was delinquent $1,450 in paying her taxes. In Detroit, firemen of the 12th Street station vainly battled a blaze in their own quarters, finally dashed away and telephoned the fire department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: How to Be Roomy | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Answered a Manhattan cafe hostess: "I'd take my most gorgeous negligee from the closet, don it, go to the window and wait for the firemen. . . . I'd risk a few minutes of my life to be seen as I always want to be seen in public, glamorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Would You Do If... | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...after box was manhandled up to the deck, passed to the small boats, nosing against the big hull like a prodigious litter of hungry pigs. Office workers, off-duty firemen, taxi drivers jolted out from Halifax, 18 miles away, to share in the bonanza. Cases of field rations were broken open on the shore, their cigarets and candy snatched out, the rest of the contents scattered over the rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: NOVA SCOTIA: Big Haul | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Cold. In Regina, Sask., Taxi Driver Ethel Sheffield swerved around a slippery curve, crashed into a lamppost, slumped unconscious in the front seat, would have frozen to death in the 16-below-zero cold if the lamppost had not upheld a fire alarm, which went off, bringing rescuing firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...Corps was organized in 1942, when bomb-blitzed London's firemen decided they needed help. Most of the members were young professional firemen who wanted to get into action in a familiar job. Overseas they manned six stations in South England ports, protected docks. The men wore uniforms, drew Army pay, 20 married British brides. In two years they lost only one man-John Stewart Coull, 37, Winnipeg, who was killed last July by a robomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: Fire's Out | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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