Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those screeching vehicles labelled S. P. Q. R. (Senatus Populusque Romanus)-, known also as "tram-ways," sat Fascist Deputy Armando Casalini with his 14-year-old daughter. As the trolley car moved off, a well-dressed young man answering to the name of Giovanni Corvi jumped on the rear platform, drew a revolver, fired three fatal shots at Casalini, who fell forward and remained motionless despite the pathetically desperate invocations of his frightened daughter. The assassin, having completed his ghastly deed, turned, jumped off the car, fell, picked himself up and made off, chased by an angry mob. Several shots...
...Baltimore, a Negress rode with her husband in a trolley, flung herself angrily upon another Negress beside whom her husband sat. The attacker was fined $16.45 for disorderly conduct...
Navy got away well and led by half a length in the first quarter-mile with Penn in hot pursuit. Penn drew up to the Blues just past the trolley bridge and Columbia snorted hard about a length behind. Just before the finishing post the Reds (Penn) strained their oars and finished half a length ahead .of the Middies, with Columbia half a length behind them...
...trolley car, or-as their operators prefer to call it-the "electric railway industry," is only 36 years old. Not until May 4, 1888, did the first commercially successful overhead trolley car appear in this country and spell the extinction of the older, slower and smaller 'horse car ' systems. To Richmond, Virginia, belongs the honor of witnessing on that date the beginning of the electrically-operated street railways. From that experimental beginning, the industry grew until at present it represents about $6,000,000,000 of invested capital, an annual income of about...
...according to the American Electric Railway Association, the industry is coming back. Cooperation between trolleys and buses is being effected, living fares are paid, and the public is taking a more sympathetic interest in its local trolley lines. In 1923 the industry spent over $2,000,000 in advertising and intends to increase its appropriations for this purpose during the present year...