Word: coating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who waits long enough in the Harvard Square station of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's system will see one of the MTA's "new" trains. It has a coat of shining orange paint, fan ventilators and padded seats; but underneath is the outmoded hulk of a 1926 transit car model. In general, that's what is wrong with the entire MTA set-up--it is only a veneer, covering up but not eliminating the financial structure of the Boston Elevated Railway Company that it replaced...
...flag-draped platform in Philadelphia, a white-bearded man in plug hat and frock coat stood towering over President Ulysses S. Grant. The visitor was Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who had come north on the British liner Hevelius for the U.S.'s centennial exposition. When a technician explained to him that the newly invented Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall made some 36 revolutions a minute, Dom Pedro cracked: "That is better than our Latin American republics...
...flats that are left, the largest belongs to his grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew up to be the present managing director. Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves his office and patrols his domain, correctly clad in striped trousers and short coat, and wearing a bowler hat to keep from being mistaken for a floorwalker...
...attended wearing his best hand-painted necktie and cowboy boots; after laying aside his cigar and taking off his coat, he spent an hour waving his hamlike hands beneath the noses of railroad lawyers, buttering up the commissioners and discussing the greatness of Texas...
Although police have checked with occultists over the weekend, no definite lead has been brought to light on the marauder who escaped three resident students in a confused brawl. Investigation is still under way in an attempt to pin down the visitor through the coat ripped from his back in the struggle...