Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shuffled into Manhattan's Hook & Ladder Co. No. 3 on Christmas night did not look much like a philanthropist. His shoes were broken, his pants were frayed, he wore only winter underwear under his pea jacket. But the firemen knew him well as a man of good will and charity...
While 300 student cheered and snapped pictures from the sidelines, Cambridge firemen had a hard time dousing a small fire in the chimney of a Plympton st. home next to Leverett House at 1:15 p.m. yesterday...
...When a movie theater in Angier, N.C. (pop. 1,028) scheduled a sex picture called Mom and Dad ("Bold! Shocking! The Secrets of Sensible Sex"), it was overrun by an unmanageable crowd. Firemen had to wet down the crowd with a hose before the picture could be shown to an all-male audience...
...afternoon nearby hospitals were jammed with people receiving oxygen treatments, and the Red Cross had set up an emergency station. Firemen moved through streets with portable oxygen bottles. A state of emergency was declared and elderly people were warned to leave the area. But, in 36 hours, hundreds had become ill and 19 people had died...
...Atlanta, during a demonstration to show schoolchildren what to do in case of fire, seven firemen were overcome by smoke. In Clarkston, Wash., Golf Professional Joe Durgan, showing Pupil Howard Melcher how to swing a golf club, shot his first hole...