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...children run under the sprinkler on the lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Go Soak Your Head | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...Welfare Department reported that, repeatedly for 13 years, it had warned the sanatorium's owner, 48-year-old Roland L. Randal, to remove the shackles and other restraints. A township marshal said that two months ago he had discovered that the sanatorium had no fire-alarm system, no sprinkler system, and its fire extinguishers were empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Chance to Be a Hero | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...University Museum, one of 48 sprinkler-equipped buildings, is checked four times weekly by the Patrol. The extra attention, Husk and Fraser explain, is because the building is not fireproof Fogg Museum, housing many valuable objets d'art that would suffer almost as much from water as from fire, is protected by carbon dioxide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Revolutionary Fire Was College's Last Major Blaze | 3/10/1950 | See Source »

...were dead. After the injured were tended and the funeral services arranged, the investigators would come, asking a pertinent question: why had the 60-year-old hospital building not been made fireproof? Fire Chief Lester Schick said that almost a year before he had urged the installation of a sprinkler system, but nothing was done about it. At Christmas, for the first time in years, hospital authorities had decided against having a lighted Christmas tree in the corridor of the mental ward. Reason: they feared a fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death Before Dawn | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...University is invited. Rasius, played by Earl Skidmore (steamfitter) opens the show with the tuneful "Melancholy Baby." Jones, Al Fraser (sprinkler system and fire protection) sounds off then on "Watch Them Shuffia' Along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workers Don 'Black Face' Tonight | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

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