Word: firemen
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...measure of British sang-froid and the "business as usual" spirit in London was shown last week by a crowd of several hundred women shoppers. They staged a hectic bargain rush in one of the big West End stores at the very moment when scores of firemen were digging through tons of debris in the same store in frantic efforts to release 200 clerks entombed in the basement night before by a bomb...
...served hot in buckets right on the blazing job. In the Express, owned by Aircraft Production Minister Baron Beaverbrook, slick Columnist John MacAdam shamefacedly wrote of the Auxiliary Fire Service that before the Blitzkrieg began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week for playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug-in much the same way as they now take the chorus of inner "Thank...
...commonplace last week for London fire fighters to go right on with their work in burning buildings while the next Nazi load of incendiary bombs was being brought up at full throttle. Only when these actually began to fall did firemen take cover, not in air-raid shelters but simply by jumping for the nearest doorway or partial shelter. One elderly woman, so paralyzed by fear that she was unable to go to a shelter, found herself watching the firemen, began brewing them a bucket...
...Poor for actors & showmen, bookkeepers & cashiers, coal miners, editors & reporters, farm laborers, firemen, fishermen, lawyers & judges, longshoremen, musicians, policemen, railroad workers, stockbrokers, teamsters, telephone operators, commercial pilots, building tradesmen, fruit farmers, office clerks, stenographers, railroad porters, streetcar conductors...
...progressive move in Alaska since Soapy Smith- was plugged." Quitting his Vatican observatory after an evening of star gazing, absent-minded Professor Father John Stein forgot to switch off the lights, left them blazing like a beacon over blacked-out Rome. Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim...