Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland last week, William Capps, a 19-year-old Negro from Somerset, Ky., hopped a freight train bound for Toledo, where he hoped to find work. Hanging on a ladder between box cars, he nodded. Suddenly he felt himself falling, grabbed wildly, caught a lower rung of the ladder. As he did so his left foot touched a spinning train wheel. The foot was pulled in and crushed between wheel top and car bottom...
...cold day about three years ago, Aaron Meier Frank of Portland, Ore. stopped to watch a fireman hustling up a ladder with a steaming pot of coffee for his water-soaked comrades in the upper floors. That sight gave Aaron Meier Frank an idea. He would give Portland an elaborately equipped "disaster wagon." Mr. Frank, a lively sportsman of 48 and benevolent scion of oldtime Portland merchants, is president of Portland's huge Meier & Frank department store...
...strong objection to the tree was that it offers no window from which to jump. As a compromise, the Committee on Arrangements has agreed to have a ladder handy...
...limousine was caught on the right by a truck loaded with steel, skittered sideways, struck the curbing and overturned. The occupants were tumbled among automobile cushions and flowers, and the doors jammed shut. But eyewitnesses soon unscrambled the royal party and the Queen Mother climbed out on a ladder supplied by a housepainter. Queen Mary smiled bravely, murmured, "Oh dear!" and was assisted to a nearby house where she sipped a cup of tea before returning home to Marlborough House...
...background--Math, Physics, Chemistry--and it is courses like these that the Undergraduate Faculty can supply. A new responsibility has come to face each college. With his potential knowledge the student can take an active part in boosting the high school graduate a few rungs higher on his vocational ladder...