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...Santa Marta has no streetcar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South American Smash | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...bulldozer shove started the old streetcar down the hill toward Aachen. The engineers, watching from the bleachers of the ridge, saw the squeeze play fail: the rocking trolley blew up before it reached the town. Maybe it shook up a few Nazi machine gunners. Well, they had another. The second improved model exploded prematurely, destroying the launching ramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Floperoo | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...week and seemed to be overworked. Even the Tiger slugging combination of Rudy York and Dick Wakefield might have been less effective than Luke Sewell's magically managed horseshoes. The Cards, despite their 2-to-1 bulge in the betting odds, were none too confident about their first streetcar World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Streetcar Series | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...Dogs. The prospect of the Browns winning to give St. Louis its first streetcar World Series (Chicago has had one, New York five) had faded from rosy red to pale, pale pink. St. Louisans, having had a lot of fun while it lasted, sat back to admire the vastly superior Cardinals, riding to their third consecutive National League pennant on a 161-game lead. But there was at least one St. Louis citizen who still believed in the Browns. Blake Harper, concessionaire at Sportsman's Park, was busy preparing a Browns' World Series program, had ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pennant Parade | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...next seat. The smoke drifted back on the Negro's wife. The smoker put up an argument. So with a few well chosen blows of his fists the Negro killed him, and got off the car. The same night, four Negro women were arrested on another streetcar. One of the Negroes was reported to have struck a white soldier's wife and her 4-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. Louis Tension | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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