Word: firetrap
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Corrosion. The ship was a firetrap. Former crewmen, along with a few who had been on vacation when the Queen sailed on its last voyage, testified that leaks occurred regularly in spaces beneath and at the sides of the four big sulphur tanks. Recurring fires in those places had become so commonplace that the ship's officers even gave up sounding the fire alarm. Emitting a gaseous, rotten-egg stink, the fires burned on and on. When the flames were extinguished, the sulphur cooled, hardened, and caked at the ship's pumps, corroded electrical equipment...
...awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
...measure of Parker's vitality is that last fall its 50-year-old plant was condemned as a firetrap-and last month it proudly opened a handsome new $2,500,000 building on the same North Side site. Vital were the $750 loans by Parker parents, who provide, says Principal Cleveland A. Thomas, "the highest order of parent participation of any school I have ever known." The parents could feel confident of a sound investment. Said Harvard College's Dean John Monro, chief speaker at the dedication of the building: "I have never known a dull...
...drive to his room, parking his car right outside. But to San Francisco's Chief Fire Marshal Albert E. Hayes, the guardian of the city's antiquated building code, the hotel was too unusual. Even before he saw the plans, he declared it a firetrap, and went to war with Architect William Tabler...
...wonder whether some of your readers may not get the wrong impression from this article. You make no mention of the hundreds of thousands of American children still having to attend classes in basements, in barns and in firetrap structures because of the extreme shortage of schools...