Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...error on page 13. Pittsburgh is not the first city operating an aluminum street car. Cleveland had its first aluminum street car nearly two years ago. Come to Cleveland if you wish to see the best in street cars, and the car riders pay for them under the Taylor-Tom Johnson franchise...
...Ohio, crowds lined the river banks. A shout went up when smoke was discernible in the distance. On Dam 35 the judges grew prematurely alert, fingered their watches. Up the river, belching like twin-snouted dragons, sloshing along at an uproarious nine-knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...
Past the finish line the packets steamed, engines wide open, passengers hullaba-looing. Spectators on the banks were still disputing the result when the ships, carried far upstream by their momentum, returned. The judges declared the Tom Greene had won by a few feet, repeating the performance of its sister ship the Chris Greene which defeated the Betsy Ann in last year's first revival of an old-time race...
...Tom Greene, 25, master of the ship bearing his name is descended from a long line of rivermen. His first mate, the only woman on the Ohio river to hold a pilot's license, was his mother...
...Sued. Tom Mix, cowboy cinemactor, now touring with Sells-Floto Circus; for $400,000; by Zack Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Charge: breach of contract (TIME, April...