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...after fighting a fire all night; Irénée's wife was permanently injured in a blast that killed 36 workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, was mortally injured in 1884 while trying to "quench" some fuming nitroglycerin to avert a disaster. *Christiana, which still holds 27% of Du Pont stock, paid $200 a share for Coleman du Pont's stock. Each share of Du Pont common has since risen to a market value (counting splits) of $11,779 and has paid a total...
Officials talked to the students at midnight and were still meeting at 2 a.m. this morning. Captain of Detectives Patrick F. Ready, who joins investigations only when arson is suspected, questioned the students about a missing fire extinguisher. The students said they used one to quench the flames, but could not show it to officials. Randall offered no theories about how the fire started...
Auxiliary Equipment. In Syracuse, N.Y., while an usher was looking for an extinguisher to quench a fire in a wastebasket, moviegoers put out the flames with artificial orange juice from an automatic drink dispenser...
...football game in Princeton does not quench the weekender's thirst for sports, it might be worth noting that Laurent Dauthuille and Paddy Young, two of the finest middleweights around, have a ten-round go at 10 p.m. tonight in Madison Square Garden...
Husk and Fraser are not fire-fighters in the usual sense of the word. Only once have they actually been on hand to quench a fire; they happened to be checking protective equipment in the hall where it broke...