Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striped denim uniform of a subway trainman appeared in the Mayor's office of the City of New York early last Tuesday morning, before the regular business hours. Theodore Loos, president of the Motorman's Benevolent Association, announced that the men on the IND were going to stage a wildcat strike at 5 a.m. the next morning...
...satisfied, even with success. He got off to a fast start with one of last season's six-cylinder Grand Prix racers, which World Champion Juan Fangio drove to victory in the Argentine Grand Prix at Buenos Aires last month, setting a track record in the bargain. And Motorman Orsi is already tooling up a new twelve-cylinder racer...
Pistol Stop. In Mexico City, after being arrested for shooting and wounding a streetcar motorman, Carlos Esparza Perez explained that the motorman drove past his corner without letting...
...years ago, the story goes, an M.I.T. undergraduate boarded a streetcar and asked the motorman to change a five-dollar bill. Meanwhile several of his friends welded the lead wheels of the car to the track, in an experimental application of thermite welding...
...Porter school, Joao shared a bench with three other Natal boys. One of them is now a federal Senator, another the president of an insurance company, the third, Manuel Leopoldino, is a streetcar motorman in Rio. A fortnight ago, Leopoldino, wearing his navy blue motor-man's uniform, went to visit the President at Catete Palace. Cafe Filho recognized him at once, embraced him warmly. "Can I help you in any way, Manuel?" he asked. "No thanks, Joao," said the motorman. "I just wanted to see you. I like my job. It's steady work. Another five years...