Word: hosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Word came in a late flash from New Haven last night that Silliman College will send a gridiron contingent northward today to face the Mastodons of Eliot Hose, thereby increasing the intramural slate this afternoon to seven games...
...speech featured a cartoon captioned Crew of Warmongers. It showed a fire truck driven by a cigar-smoking Churchill. The other firemen were Hearst, Baruch (with a bucketful of atom bombs), Franco, a Turk and a Greek. Said a poem accompanying the cartoon: "Although this crew carries a fire hose, it's really a flame thrower...
...eight-car B. & O. special rolled west across the U.S., he lazed happily in the bulletproof car (converted originally for Franklin D. Roosevelt), chatted with his official family, slept soundly. He was already awake when the train was jolted by a pre-dawn emergency stop in Indiana (an air hose broke and clamped on the automatic braking system...
Soon the situation was well out of hand. Mobs fought with firemen and police (ten cops were injured), hurled bottles and bricks through windows, smashed the ticket booth of Scollay Square's Old Howard burlesque house, turned on a fire hose in a downtown movie theater. Women of all ages fled from the streets. Said Police Superintendent Edward W. Fallon: "The worst night in my experience...
...rest of the world to relax trade restrictions. (Commercial exports in May were $649 million, highest since January 1921.) But there had been no boom since OPA's death. If a boom started, OIT could clamp on controls in 24 hours. In effect, CPA was turning on the hose before the fire started. But CPA was bulling its plan through anyway. It intended to make doubly sure that there would be no fire...