Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trolley line serving his development failed. To keep tenants in the 500 houses, his two sons had to drive second-hand buses between the development and the railroad station. Whatever his sons may have thought, bus operating was not so bad for Harris Nevin. He incorporated his two buses into a $250,000 company. In 1924 he started one of the first interstate bus lines in the East, between Manhattan and Philadelphia, with Wanamaker department stores as terminals. Since then he has bought up some 40 lines radiating throughout the East and South, has abandoned real estate for good...
...have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make (not to speak of the months they must have spent making hollowed wooden dishes, sharpened shell knives and scissors, woven blankets and tapestries, basket work). He has an elaborate machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown him the white man's leg-scissor hold, toehold, and hammerlock, he obtains zinc and copper (cheerfully left unexplained) and two radio tubes the savage With these...
George Laschetzke, trolley conductor, returned from work to his top-floor apartment on South Halsted Street near the Chicago Stock Yards early Saturday afternoon. Outside the building two men stopped him, flashed gold badges. "We're government men," said they, "looking for an escaped convict." Laschetzke took them up to his apartment. There they pulled guns. Laschetzke, his wife and mother were marched down to the second-floor apartment. With two other tenants they were herded into a bathroom. All visitors of the evening, including two children, were imprisoned with them...
...Engineer Sprague spent a year with Thomas Edison, then formed his own company, got a contract in 1887 to install an electric railway in Richmond, Va. Said he later: "I believed in myself and staked a fortune. All hands worked with a vengeance. . . . The morning we tried the first trolley up the steepest grade, it crept up the 10% slope slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts poured in from all over the world." In New Orleans, at a mass...
Birthday. Frank Julian Sprague, 75, "father of the trolley car." Celebration: a tribute meeting at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities...