Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolhouse for children of U. S. and British engineers and workmen now helping Russia with her Five-Year Plan. Fond parents faced painful alternatives. The school, as Soviet officials frankly admitted, will try to turn every pupil into a little Bolshevik. But the Government offered free tuition & textbooks, reduced streetcar fares and for each hungry pupil a heaping hot lunch at 15?-such a lunch as would otherwise cost in Moscow at least...
...famed & frequent. Just as many a tycoon seeks relaxation in reading, playing a violin, constructing ship models or painting. Mr. Joyce has his escape mechanism. When he wants to be alone he buys a couple of apples, rides for an hour or so on the back platform of a streetcar. His handshake has a vertical range of three feet. Nobody dares guess the range of his plans for Great Western...
...Louis when Public Service Co. announced a 10% wage-cut for its 3,500 streetcar employes, the motormen and conductors promptly voted to strike in protest. After two days of negotiations, city officials secured from the company and its men a tentative agreement to arbitrate...
Four suits still pend after the tunnel streetcar crash. Helen Sheehy asks $40,000. Jean Sheehy asks $5,500. Irene Roylance asks $6,500; Mrs. Margaret McCabe $50,000. Scout Watson was paid $21,500 in an out-of-court settlement; 36 others have also settled out of court, receiving $11,283.25 in amounts ranging from $4 to $2,500.-ED. Lippmann, Keynes & Strachey...
...about his neck, he would wander nocturnally among the poor and jobless of the city, sleeping and eating with them as public wards. Thus, when a committee of unemployed called at his office to complain about conditions in the city's almshouse and demand free food, clothing, rent, streetcar rides, and a dole of $15 a week, Mayor Mackey was well prepared to exclaim...