Word: tramways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle, 12,000 horses and mules, 1,200 "miscellaneous animals...
...Mesa Centrala is riddled with these tremendous gorges. The change in climate as you descend is remarkable. The mine was up on the rim in a forest of pine trees; but down below where the ore was carried by an aerial tramway, the jungle was full of parrots and monkeys...
...Bingham, Utah, a stanch steel cable furnishes trackage for the aerial tramway that connects the Utah Delaware Co.'s reducing plant with the mines. Last week as a high wind shrilled and blew, one Glen Higley, miner, rode the tram bucket. The cable thrummed; the slowly traveling bucket creaked and groaned as it swayed 200 feet above ground. Miner Higley felt frolicsome, peered over the edge. A bellows-gust of wind struck the swaying bucket neatly and pitched him out. Because he lit in a snow drift he will live...
Mulcting. Much annoyance was occasioned by the outrageous profiteering of local hotel people and tradesmen. Correspondents opined that the municipal tramway company set a bad example by raising its fares 25% during the exhibition...