Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnny was born because he discovered how to stop all the traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored out to Le Bourget to see Lindbergh land. "Then Mamma suddenly got some pains in her belly and Papa and Aigner got sweat on their heads because they couldn...
...waters began to retreat. Pittsburgh stirred itself, started back to life. Some power was being piped in from the West. By midnight almost half the street lights were on, some trolley cars were running, electricity was flowing to hospitals, dairies, bakeries. But all next day, as the receding flood left an inch of slime on streets and sidewalks, banks, factories, stores, theatres, schools remained closed. It would be days before power generators, factory machines, water pumps could be dried out and set working. The dead were estimated at 57, the homeless at 135,000, the damage...
Adding complications to the traditionally chaotic traffic situation on Harvard Square, wire stringers, perched atop construction trucks, have been laying the overhead foundations for a new trolley bus line. The buses will operate between the Square and Lechmere...
...trolley bus system has been successfully installed in several New England towns and in Providence. Powered with a motor similar to that of an ordinary trolley car, these vehicles ride on rubber tries, are steered like a bus, and can wander 12 feet each side of the trolley...
...Cambridge trolley car conductor these days, with an opportunity of running experimental trolley bus number 8001 around a specially constructed loop in the Charles River Yard. Between runs, this prize possession is kept inside the shed, but at least once an hour, some accredited conductor is allowed to climb into the control seat and take her for a trial spin...