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Here, then, is the picture on Saturday afternoon, when huge crowds are besieging the New Haven Street Railway. Travelling in large groups, the Elis attack the waiting streetcar in flying wedge formation and contrive to place their dates in some available seat. They then retire to the outer extremities of the car and seize upon some handy appendage from which they hang for the rest of the ride. As this handy appendage is frequently the collar of another Eli who in turn is hanging over the side of the car, it is possible to make the mile and a half...
...have been all right, but they were mined with political bombs. Promptly, Pittsburgh's A.F.L. and C.I.O. unions, which so far had been cool to George, rallied under the banner of anti-injunction. As George's union walked out and Pittsburgh's electric power dwindled, A.F.L. streetcar workers, C.I.O. steel-mill and electrical-parts workers also struck in sympathy...
...said: "The world, weary and disillusioned, is sweeping half-measures from the political field . . . forming up clearly on the Right or on the Left." Salazar's own policies have encouraged both the disillusionment and the drift to the Right and Left extremes. Last month in Lisbon an old streetcar motorman, who earns $30 a month after 25 years' service, summed it up: "I ask only for the minimum to enable me and my family to live. Salazar gives us only the right to die. . . . Yes, I belong to the Anti-Fascist Unity Council ... I can't tell...
...Over at the streetcar queue police fired into the air, driving commuters into a panic. Police got excited and clubbed Commies and non-Commies alike. Ambulances were almost as thick as taxicabs. Right in the middle of all this I ran into an American named Weeks who had just arrived. 'My,' said Mr. Weeks, 'Rio is an exciting place...
Nowadays sprawling B.A.'s transport was so old and overburdened that Pedro had to get up an hour early to catch the streetcar to work. To save money, Pedro had also stopped lunching downtown, and that meant another scramble for a ride home. Maria, his wife, knew how to stretch a peso, but the noonday meal seldom varied from the traditional puchero (meat and vegetable stew...