Word: firemanning
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...headquarters were the "thirst emporiums" on the Right Bank, and rare was the visiting fireman in Paris who missed him. Night in & out the indestructible little columnist organized his "death watch" for visiting Americans due to catch the boat train from the Gare St. Lazare for Cherbourg. The Sparrow saw his pal to the station, bounced off in the full dawn to do his chipper column on the night's adventures. It was a unique column -a syntax-slaughtering chronicle which editors were carefully warned not to unscramble. Said Playwright Eugene O'Neill of its author...
...collaborator with Thomas Alva Edison in the development of the motion-picture camera, Inventor Porter lived to participate in important research on sound and color films. In 1899 he made for Edison the first story film when he produced a 500-ft. subject called The Life of an American Fireman. Four years later, in the wilds of Essex County, N.J., he made The Great Train Robbery, first Western thriller...
...love for railroads watching the Central Vermont's famous engine, General Taylor, cross his father's pastures in North Hartland, Vt. One day in April 1879, he decided to find out where it went, got a job as a $1-a-day section hand, worked up as fireman, locomotive engineer, machinist, trainmaster and superintendent. At 43 he became vice president of James J. Hill's Burlington. When in 1910 he got his call to put B. & O. in order, Hill fought to hold him, vainly offered to merge the Burlington and Great Northern, make Uncle Dan president...
...lowbrow, duty-destroying athletic aristocracy among whom most "nice" boys long to qualify. He wants intensely to be accepted as a rat. Harriet, who knows on which side of the tracks her future lies, wants him not to. Then Dutchy appears. A nice, hard blonde, the daughter of a fireman who drowns in the Charles, Dutchy is the essence of river-rattism Ralph is torn between Dutchy and Harriet; he lies elaborately to one about the other; but all his boyish subterfuges fall through. In the end he quits the sloppy vagabondage of the river to go to Tufts...
...went to school in Maine, then went to sea. In a Boston fisherman he spent two years on the Grand Banks. For a few months he took fishing parties out of Gloucester on his own yacht, Vagrant, got his master's papers while he was working as a fireman aboard the steamship Florida between Miami and Havana...