Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Scales and the Sword" deals with the conflict between the selfish interest represented by an extortionate suburban grocer, and the social interest, represented by refugees driven from their homes by a great city fire...
...exorbitant prices, and goaded into violence by the grocer's brutality, are at length supported by the militia, who seize the store under martial law, and distribute bread to the needy. The play is well constructed, and its dramatic effects were well managed. The suggestion of the distant fire as a background for the action of the play was especially effective...
...Where basement doors are commonly hooked open, provide fusible link fastenings and springs on doors so that in case of fire in the basement, the doors will close and latch automatically...
...Provide gongs in all dormitory entries wherever a fire might shut off access to the stairs-these gongs to be arranged to operate automatically through a fusible link, and also by mechanical means from various places in the entries, those operating places to be suitably protected. Arrange to have these gongs tested at regular intervals, probably monthly...
...purposes of these recommendations are to prevent fire and smoke from spreading rapidly from rooms to halls and from halls to rooms; to prevent fire and smoke from spreading rapidly from basements to halls; and to give a prompt general alarm in case of fire in a hallway, and to supply a means of giving a general alarm in case of fire anywhere...