Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further acquiring trolley lines and elevateds, I. R. T. soon had a monopoly on Manhattan transit. Meanwhile Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. attained a similar monopoly across the river in Brooklyn, though it had no subway then. This cozy set-up has foliated through the years until today New York's rapid transit lines are a complex tangle with only three clear-cut divisions...
Riders on a drafty Mass. Avenue trolley car were startled out of their numbness last night by harsh sounds, of altercation coming from behind the green curtain that separates conductor from lowly customer...
...very large numerical majority of stockholders in American corporations has a dangerously inadequate representation on their corporate boards. . . . The average modern director does not direct the course of the corporation to a much greater extent than a conductor directs the course of his trolley car. Both of them go along with the vehicle ; and one of them is often present only for the sake of the ride...
...theorists. Born in Germany, brought to the U. S. at three, orphaned at 12, Julius Heil has been working ever since. He manicured horses and waited on customers for a Wisconsin country storekeeper. He learned about machinery by running a drill press at 14 for International Harvester Co., about trolley cars by being a conductor in Milwaukee. He founded his own business, a rail joint welding company, in 1900 with the first $700 he saved. For ten years he paid himself only $2 a day, and often had to borrow from the neighborhood saloonkeeper to meet his payroll...
Yeeman work was done before, during, and after the game by the University Band. Two trolley-cars full of Cambridge musicians blared Harvard music at sullen New Haven gamins on the way to the Bowl, and all the way back one liquified saxophonist emitted a continuous version of Harvardiana, forgetting, however, to disembark until North Haven...