Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ San Francisco had an uproar over Mayor Roger Lapham's proposal to scuttle the famed cable cars which have clanged up & down the city's steep hills since 1873. Riders, jolting on the hard, wooden seats, clinging perilously to the outside steps, voted 9-to-1 to...
Burial in Berlin. In Vienna, the cold wave brought a bizarre crime wave. Robbers with Tommy guns held up trolley cars, stripped riders to their underwear, made off with their clothes. Raiding parties snatched hats (which were almost unobtainable by purchase) from men's heads in broad daylight. One...
Next morning, while armored cars roamed Jerusalem streets, the terrorists struck again. While a courtroom crowd watched, another gang of two women and eight men forced Judge Ralph Windham, still in his wig and gown, from his Tel Aviv district court bench.
But did he? No one knew for sure. All he had was some 5% of the stock. (Alleghany controls C. & O. with only 6%.) Was that really enough to control Central's 10,743 miles of tracks, its 119,208 employes, its 139,278 locomotives and cars? Well, if...
Young claims that his battle cry that "A hog can cross the country without changing trains-but you can't!" had forced the railroads to start the first through transcontinental service. He had sounded off about a lot of things that people had been putting up with and not...