Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answering an alarm from Eliot House, the Cambridge fire Department found smoke billowing out from the basement of J Entry. The reception tendered the firemen by the janitorial staff was inhospitable to the point of leaving the iron gates locked until with the aid of their newest automatic hock and ladder, the red-hatted gentry had surmounted the grill fence...
...visitors must climb 175 steps to the huge sliding bronze front door where bas relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began last week to receive some $400,000,000 in gold and silver from the smoke-stained old San Francisco mint at Fifth & Mission. The two storage vaults, 48 x 78 and 28 x 52 ft., are equipped with triple-locked doors, wired with microphones so a central guard room hears every sound in the vaults. Trucks enter the mint through an anteroom guarded...
Ambulances and fire-trucks were now clanging in from every direction. Commander Rosendahl's splendid Navy discipline kept confusion at a minimum. The flames began to subside, but dense black smoke still poured from the twisted heap of redhot girders and the smoldering pud- dle of fuel oil. Not until next morning was the wreckage cool enough for men to pry out all the crisped bodies within, many of them only tentatively identifiable. The dawn score of deaths stood at eleven passengers, 21 crew, while 28 passengers and 49 crew miraculously escaped. One member of the ground-crew...
Last week Mellon fellows were working on subjects ranging from air pollution to textile finishings, shoes to shaving, smoke abatement to cigaret technology...
...stone wall on Cemetery Ridge, led a handful of survivors safely back. Long before Appomattox he knew there was no hope left, but like many a butternut veteran was willing to go on. Mildred could hardly recognize as her fire-eating lover the tattered scarecrow that came limping into smoke-blackened, ruined Richmond after Lee's surrender. Broken, beaten, he could still wish that Lee had ordered them to fight on. Even now that the bugles would blow no more, he could think of nothing but the war that had been his life; his proudest memory would always...