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...significant procession of labor advisers filed into the White House one by one: George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, Philip Murray of C.I.O., Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission, David B. Robertson of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. All four have worked for labor unity...
Machine Age. Thomas Folweiler tried to get a package of ice cream out of a vending machine, grasped the package firmly, pulled, found his hand was stuck; firemen gave up the struggle 45 minutes later, smashed the machine away from Folweiler, who was treated at a Philadelphia hospital for lacerations and ice cream bite...
Over Seattle a big Boeing bomber was in trouble. Fire whipped from an engine nacelle, was extinguished, burst out again. Four men jumped. Too late. On Boeing Field, cleared of traffic when the fire was reported by radio, firemen waited for the plane to come in. There was not enough time. The bomber, now low in the air, dived down flaming, crashed into the Frye packing plant, where employes were at lunch...
...massacre of his country, Topolski has lacerated Fascism with numerous brilliantly satirical cartoons. Where Goya fought sadism in war with purposely sadistic drawings of actual fighting, Topolski expresses total war through images of Russian peasants, London women and children bombed out of their homes, soldiers worn out after battle, firemen exhausted after days & nights of blitz, crowds rushing for safety-pathetic rather than cruel facts...
Exempted by draft boards when they enroll in the Merchant Marine Naval Reserve "for inactive duty," they spend five weeks in preliminary training. Then they are given eight weeks' specialized training as seamen, firemen, water tenders, oilers, messmen, cooks, bakers, clerks and pharmacist's mates. Trainees are taught to handle themselves in a lifeboat, spend a total of 90 hours on lifeboat drill alone...