Word: streetcars
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...Open Door was closed now, perhaps forever. Britain and France had ceased to exist in the Chinese reckoning. There was talk of the U. S. Navy occupying the British base at Singapore to safeguard democratic interests in the Far East. But a cargo of San Francisco's old streetcar tracks was about to leave the U. S. last week to make more guns to kill Chinese. In Chungking, America had become only an expression of distaste...
...Poor for actors & showmen, bookkeepers & cashiers, coal miners, editors & reporters, farm laborers, firemen, fishermen, lawyers & judges, longshoremen, musicians, policemen, railroad workers, stockbrokers, teamsters, telephone operators, commercial pilots, building tradesmen, fruit farmers, office clerks, stenographers, railroad porters, streetcar conductors...
...drab backwash of the '80s in downtown Minneapolis one day last week went erect, seamy-faced Mayor George E. Leach. At the corner of Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...
...scare the Allies; 2) to reassure the German people that this time a blockade would not be effective; 3) to persuade doubting Germans that the Russians were, after all, reliable allies. Anent this thesis, the New York Herald Tribune's peripatetic Joseph Barnes, who specializes in listening to streetcar conversations and talking over lively topics with hundreds of Germans in all walks of life, reported...
...chilled when the comrades return to Moscow, there are such inspirations as a parade on the Red Square with marchers stolidly carrying hundreds of identical pictures of Stalin. There are scenes in Ninotchka's small apartment whose limited lebensraum she shares with a girl cellist, a beefy Russian streetcar conductress of the kind Poet e. e. cummings called "non-men," and a dark, dumpy little man who plods silently in & out-"You never know whether he is going to the washroom or the secret police...