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...Manhattan, policemen and firemen cornered two murderers in an animal store. Massacre was being done; corpses littered the floor; strangled parakeets lay limp; flapping goldfish gasped for life; fumbling turtles swayed perplexedly. After two hours the killers were subdued- a wicked little monkey and a big. black, bad baboon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Author | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD" FALSE ALARM FOR FIREMAN | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

Invisible intelligencers spread the news in the great ant hill. Squads of ant firemen advanced into the tunnel, attacked the flames, carried out smoke-blackened passengers. Many were injured, none killed. Scores of ant officials with ant authority hurried to investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Ant Hill | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...show will be presented in Cambridge on April 3, 4, and 5, and in New York on the following Monday, April 8. There are 25 in the east, including a chorus representing Cambridge firemen and girls of the period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD," IS TITLE OF NEW PUDDING PLAY | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

...take to translate disapproval into the actual cutting off of credit. Discussions of the power of the Federal Reserve Board (as distinct from its opinions) is obscured by the popular conception of an all-powerful group of government appointees sitting in Washington and turning credit on and off like firemen playing a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Federal Warning | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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