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Christmas Present. On Christmas Eve, grinning conductors on Hong Kong's double-decker trolleys politely refused to accept fares. Said they suavely: "It's a Christmas present from the company." This was the trolleymen's way of warning their employers that they were deadly serious in their demand for a 50?-a-day wage increase. The employers were deadly serious, too. After four days of free rides for the populace, during which penniless coolies sprawled delightedly about the upper decks (first class), the management sacked the conductors, halted service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: How Long | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Briant Decker of the Hygiene Department pronounced Harbury dead after all measures, including insulin injections, had been exhausted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Electrocuted in Physics Lab Experiment | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying one-way traffic on each, the two decks are 36 feet wide all the way except...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

...tall and the eldest of six brothers, all over 6 ft. 4. He has already written several sprawling novels of his native Sioux country which stirred the hayseed in many a city heart and established him as a prose bard of the tall corn. Now he plans a triple-decker to be called World's Wanderer, of which The Primitive is Part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prairie Giraffe | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Bolman, William Merton '51, Chadwick, William John '51, Decker, John Barry '51, Marston, Byrne Richard '51, Roosevelt, Julian Kean '50, Wells, John Shippen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Lists Spring Letter Winners | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

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