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...engineers and firemen in passenger train service is based on 100 miles or five hours, whichever makes the fatter envelope. Thus the engineer on the Santa Fe's crack El Capitan makes $15.77 for the 2½-hour, 203-mile run between Dodge City, Kans. and La Junta, Colo...
...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors of America, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Switchmen's Union of North America...
Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing...
...London the A. F. S. put on an art show by its members. Most of the exhibitors had been commercial artists in peacetime. Their show was all eyewitness stuff: fires, explosions, firemen climbing ladders, playing hoses into flame-licked buildings. A. F. S. plans, when Londoners are through looking at their smokeater art, to send it to Manhattan, where Mayor LaGuardia, an old fire buff, has arranged to have it exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York...
...student rang the alarm bell, and sent the lecture audiences pouring from every door; another called the fire department, which dutifully sent over three of its finest engines posthaste. As usual, the fire was out by the time the engines arrived. Damage: nothing but the wounded dignity of the firemen...