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...Couzens was mayor of Detroit in 1922 when the city bought Detroit United Railway (for $19,850,000). He was in the Senate, and Detroit Street Railways was running in the black when a husky onetime track material checker named Frederick Albert Nolan became its operating boss...
Since then Fred Nolan has kept his heavy undershot jaw set for his two favorite principles: 1) that transportation, like any other commodity, must be cheap to be sold in quantity and at a profit; 2) that transportation must follow population...
Today Detroit's streetcar fare is 6?. Fares on 22 of its 35 bus lines have been reduced from 10? to 5? and Fred Nolan plans to slash all of them to a nickel as soon as he can persuade the city administration to authorize it. His ideal is a transportation system which makes no citizen walk more than a block from his home to the bus or streetcar...
...year General Manager Nolan took charge, the line's net income was $1,181,587, and its fixed charges were earned 1.61 times. At the end of the 1939 fiscal year, net income had hit $2,030,033 and the line had earned its charges 2.26 times. It also paid $743,022 in taxes. Its wage scale went up with income and today Detroit Street Railways' platform men, operating 1,269 busses, 1,302 streetcars, are paid an average of 81? an hour, highest...
...baby reunionists, '36, were the perfect costumes for yesterday's heat-wave--bloomers and blouses. As usual there were slogans and sign boards, witticisms touching on recent and long dead issues. 1919 wanted to know "Who Said Widow Nolan's Is A Racket". 1929 bewailed the fact that "In '29 Our Stock Was High, In '39 Our Hock Is Higher," while 1936 punned, "Undergraduates Learn To Swallow Goldfish, Graduates Forced To Swallow Nude...