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...Volunteer Firemen...
London revealed that when British Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bownill, Atlantic Ferry Command head, flew from Canada to England last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 20) his bomber carried an unusual cargo: 100 yards of canvas for London's firemen to paint pictures on. It was sent by the Montreal Arts Club, which, impressed by a recent Canada exhibition of London firemen's art, had decided to do something "in admiration of the fine work of the men who fought the battle of flames and recorded it in paint...
...Price control is essential if Government salaries and appropriations are to have any meaning. What will happen to the teachers, war veterans, social-security beneficiaries, policemen, firemen, all the hundreds of thousands of Government employes, Federal, State, county, and city, if prices are allowed to run wild? . . . Again, with appropriations so much is voted for guns, tanks, and airplanes. Before they have been produced prices have jumped and to get the same number of tanks and guns and airplanes additional appropriations are needed...
...Washington's prayers for soldiers had been answered with a vengeance." The Fire Zouaves, a regiment of New York firemen, just took what they wanted. When they met a pig in the streets, they ate it. They bought shoes at a fashionable bootery, charged them to President Lincoln. Dinner, transportation, cigars they charged to President Davis. They also chased secessionists and old ladies...
...Louis firemen, members of an A.F. of L. union, voted $5,000 out of their treasury "for legislative purposes": to promote a bill providing firemen's pensions...