Word: tram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamtramck (pronounced ham-tram-mick) is a Polish factory community entirely encircled by Detroit and submerged by politics. Hamtramck's manners are Old World; but its morals have produced more political scandals than any city in Michigan. Mayors have become convicts; ex-convicts have become Congressmen. Once Hamtramck boasted a model school system which some optimists thought might save the place...
...Vienna, the tram conductors are cheerful. They are among the few people who know where they are going these days, and they proudly wear the Social-Democratic party flower on their caps-red tin carnations. The trolleys, which are just as red, again rattle through the streets with people hanging like bunches of grapes from the jammed cars. Lilacs and hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand high and firm in the chestnut trees. You don't have to remember the bodies still buried under the ruins to realize that all the flowers amid Vienna's dead...
...knew why Evelyn MacLean,† 26, sultry-eyed, black-haired, good-looking, had married John Dick, 40, a Hamilton, Ont. tram driver. The only explanation she gave was that "he was a lovely fellow. He used to call and help me with the dishes. He brought soap chips." Nor did there seem to be much reason why hardworking John Dick had married her. Five days after her marriage (in October 1945) she committed adultery. Shortly after, she and John separated...
After scoring three times in the first nine minutes of play, the Varsity soccer tram ran out of gas, and by the time the final whistle blow, had been decisively outplayed and defeated 4 to 3 by a big, rough team from Amherst...
...Dutra Government is working hard to mend matters. Last week, experts in London and Sāo Paulo were deep in dicker over modernization plans for half a dozen British-owned railways and tram lines. Transport Minister Edmundo de Macedo Scares, back from. Washington, claimed promise of a $50,000,000 credit for new equipment and highways...