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"ref": "1993, Nancy F. Cott, editor, History of Women in the United States. Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. 15. Women and War, page 432",
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"ref": "30 June 2019, Don't call us for cats stuck in trees', Fire Brigade warns (Daily Telegraph)",
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"ref": "ca. 1913 The wreck of Old 97 [ballad, Blue Ridge Mountains], verse 3",
"text": "He looked around his cab at his black greasy fireman, saying 'shovel on a little more coal, and when we cross that White Oak Mountain, you can watch Old 97 roll'."
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, page 140",
"text": "No grass grew under a train when the engineer let Fireman McLash take the throttle.",
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"ref": "1949 May and June, R. A. H. Weight, “A Short-Lived Pacific Class”, in Railway Magazine, page 196",
"text": "A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties.",
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"ref": "2013 August 24, Sophie Wyllie, quoting Tina Pinney, “Volunteer Tina steams ahead and becomes qualified fireman on North Norfolk Railway”, in Eastern Daily Press, →ISSN",
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"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948",
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