Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the building every fire crew in Tokyo was at work but there was not a fire ladder in the city tall enough to reach the roof. Army planes swooped overhead trying to drop ropes to the milling crowds on the roof. A battalion of troops with fixed bayonets held back hysterical crowds that blocked traffic in the heart of Tokyo for three hours. Slowly, painfully most of those trapped in the building were lowered down ropes to the street. At nightfall police checked up: 14 dead, over 100 injured, property damage estimated...
...this race to the rostrum, the Speakership will not be settled until late this winter when the 313 Democrats of the next Congress caucus in Washington. Then the balance of power will be held by the 129 new members, most of them from the North and West. Seniority Ladder- There would be no serious question about Representative Rainey's selection had it not been for the Harding landslide in 1920. He entered the House in 1903, was assigned to the Ways & Means Committee, started to climb the ladder of seniority. By 1914 only Alabama's Underwood (tariff-maker...
Over the side went a Jacob's ladder and guy ropes. In rain and darkness a little group of seamen stood by the rail. In the center stood the Conte di Savoia's commander, sparse little Captain Antonio Lena. "It is my duty and mine alone to go down the side!" cried the Captain...
...Well, the firemen have just put a ladder to my window. I'm glad to know it's there in case I need...
Later Reporter McCullough telephoned again, learned that Mr. Akins had spurned the ladder, was coolly resuming work...