Word: streetcar
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...virtue of Crump's irascibility toward the "interests," it owned its own power, gas, water systems. The streetcar company had been slugged into kicking through with 6% of its gross receipts. Utility rates and taxes were...
...labor, own one of Havana's big newspapers, swing the voting balance in the Senate, take a noisy if not decisive part in President Grau's policymaking. Through indirect control of the Ministry of Labor, the party forced the Government to seize Havana's U.S.-owned streetcar lines and a slaughterhouse in order to enforce labor demands. The working arrangement with the Grau regime helped put Communist Party Chief Juan Marinello in the Senate Vice-President's chair, may help the Communists pick up provincial mayorships and congressional seats in the June elections...
...Kentucky ham and beaten biscuits), talk grandly of fine horses, fine whiskey, fine tobacco, and beautiful women. The race is the red stuffing in a very plump olive. Kentuckians, acting for one week the way Texans and Southern Californians do for 52, are out-this year, after three wartime "streetcar" Derbies, way out-to welcome the free-spending outlanders...
...sailors are and want to continue to look like U.S. Naval sailors. We do not want to be soda jerks or streetcar conductors...
...York City, which last month weathered a ten-day tie-up by striking tugboat operators, now faced the threat of a far more serious strike: on all city-owned subway, elevated, streetcar and bus lines...