Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater tension than usual. The crime organization is going through one of its most crucial internal struggles since Prohibition, when the fight for control led to the bloody Castellammarese War (named for the Sicilian town of Castellammare del Golfo, birthplace of many of the leading thugs). Only when the smoke cleared from that battle and a nationwide commission of Mafia dons was set up to coordinate criminal operations did the closed brotherhood, which was imported by Sicilian immigrants in the 1860s, begin dominating the American underworld...
Policeman at the scene said if the fire had not been discovered by the two workers if might have been hours before anyone noticed the smoke...
...employee was taken to the University Health Services (UHS) for smoke inhalation and a bloody nose he sustained while trying to put out the fire, a police spokesman said yesterday...
...Cambridge Fire Department responded to the fire with nine vehicles. Smoke filled the building as the firemen extinguished the fire, which started inside a wall partition near the dining room...
Utility executives will concentrate on knocking out Carter's proposal to force them to install expensive "scrubbers" in their plants to remove harmful chemicals from coal smoke. Their argument: if they have to convert from oil and natural gas to coal as completely as Carter wants, installation of scrubbers would add $7 billion to their costs through 1985, and that would have to be passed on in higher electricity rates to users. Coal lobbyists will join the attack: they fear that if power plants are forced to install scrubbers, they will either drag their feet as long as possible...