Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighteen hundred trolleymen struck in New Orleans as a result of a union contract dispute. New Orleans Public Service, Inc., imported strikebreakers from Buffalo, N. Y., attempted to run its cars. The first car out of the Canal Street barns was pelted with bricks and paving stones. The "scab" motorman quit in five minutes...
...Pittsburgh last week the world's first aluminum street car, half as heavy as steel, permitting high speed with comfort, made its first run, revived lagging public interest in trolley transportation...
With a two-thirds quorum already chosen, the Board was ready to organize. Its first duty was to get itself squared away in Washington. Looking for possible office space, inspectors went through the old Southern R. R. building, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street, lately acquired by the U. S. Secretaries, assistants, experts, clerks-the large personnel of bureaucracy -had to be hired, set to work...
Wheat was the Board's primary problem. Between the Board and that crop, the harvest of which was moving north out of Kansas at the rate of 25 miles per day, a hard-driven race had developed. The Board's first aim was to interpose its relief machinery before this year's wheat crop heaps up on last year's carry over and again depresses prices. A scant two months remained in which to erect dikes against the grain flood. In that time a wheat advisory council had to be named by the Board. The council...
...agents logically came under suspicion first. A Grand Jury was asked to fix the blame. Nor did the government consider the owners of the lost liquor, the holders of the warehouse certificates, altogether blameless. Many of them were supposed to be onetime saloon keepers who had not wholly lost interest in liquor sales...