Word: looping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge trolley car conductor these days, with an opportunity of running experimental trolley bus number 8001 around a specially constructed loop in the Charles River Yard. Between runs, this prize possession is kept inside the shed, but at least once an hour, some accredited conductor is allowed to climb into the control seat and take her for a trial spin...
...test of skill is provided, too, in navigating the bus around the loop. At the very start, a narrow door presents no mean obstacle, and is immediately followed by a difficult curve which exacts close concentration to keep the trolleys on their cables. Then comes the straightaway in which the maximum speed of 88 m.p.h. can almost be reached before the brakes must be applied...
...Deal have become more frequent and at the same time more bitter as the Roosevelt anesthesia has worn off. As is only natural, mistakes have been made, glaring errors have been brought to light and opposing forces throughout the country have been quick to seize on the loop-holes in the administration's program. Yet, they have, for the most part, been the work of men or parties materially interested in discrediting the Roosevelt regime. One understands attacks made by Republicans on a Democratic administration. They may have the truth of the gospels, the forces of a juggernaut and still...
...week that the Democratic Party assembled in Chicago to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was the worst Depression week in Chicago banking. Nervous depositors swarmed into even the biggest Loop banks, demanded their money. Runs hit good banks and bad alike. That was the week that Charles Gates Dawes negotiated his notorious $90,000,000 RFC loan for his now defunct Central Republic. Long queues in the main banking rooms of First National were not dispersed until President Melvin Alvah Traylor addressed the crowd, explaining that he had enough cash for each & every depositor, that First National had weathered...
...proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many a disciple of the "International Style" prefers to think of Louis Sullivan as the designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows and very little on its upper façade except for the terra cotta bands following the bare outlines of the building's steel skeleton. It was begun in 1899. It might have been run up last year. Louis Sullivan...