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...Brody, a retired bachelor transit worker, began three years ago to feed and care for "Timothy," a tan neighborhood stray. Timothy developed home-loving traits, and would curl up comfortably at Mr. Brody's feet on cold autumn night, purring happily. Mr. Brody could not imagine why Timothy vanished two weeks...
While the Republicans are arguing that the fifteen-cent transit fare, on a system that the state owns, was put in by Dever in direct violation of his campaign promise, the Democrats say that the price could have been even higher. Had the Republican commissioners had their way, Dever advocates claim, it would be twenty cents for a large number of riders...
Twenty people were injured in the Square yesterday--six, seriously--when an old type trolley crashed into a trackless trolley standing in the underground Metropolitan Transit Authority station...
...fillin, he started to write "In Our Town," which had been merely a collection of amusing miscellany. Selby filled in so vigorously that he kept the column, and transformed it. When a Camden commuter complained about having to pay an extra 3? for a transfer on Philadelphia's transit system Selby investigated. He found, to the transit company's amazement, that its cashiers were systematically overcharging everyone. When other readers complained about tenement "fire traps," Selby checked into the city ordinances, and soon landlords of 113 buildings were hauled up for violations. From then on, tips flooded...
...Communist-controlled People's Bank occupy sites formerly held by private banks. When a private rice shop closes its doors, more than likely it will open a few days later as a sales office of the government company. Most of the city's foreign-owned transit and power companies are financing operational deficits by heavy borrowings from the People's Bank, which puts them virtually in the hands of the government...