Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol grounds, it posed engineers a tortuous problem. Solution: an endless belt of aluminum plates strung together on the escalator principle, with enough play to take the curves, and powered by seven dwarf motors. Initial cost of $175,000 seemed staggering beside the $25,000 spent on the Senate trolley, but there were compensations. Annual appropriation for operating the Senate subway, which requires two motormen, is $2,000, while running cost for the moving sidewalk would be only for the flick of a switch, morning and night, and for the electricity. Furthermore, each trip on the shuttle would save...
...companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided against the outright subsidy proposed last fortnight by Railway Labor's George Harrison. Subsidies are hard to stop, said the President. What if, for example, the Government had undertaken to subsidize trolley cars ten years ago when that industry went on the skids? Precisely what he would do, said he, he still did not know, but sometime this week he would send recommendations to Congress and release the text of the special report prepared by ICCommissioners Splawn, Eastman and Mahaffie...
...Stanford-California football game, 3,000 students and numerous graduates and townspeople got out of hand following the annual pre-game rally. $10,000 damage and numerous injuries resulted before the celebrants left for Palo Alto, scene of the encounter. The rioters pushed automobiles into theater lobbies and derailed trolley cars...
...dozens of great fires broke out and Chinese and Japanese shells not aimed at the Settlement screamed over it. there were gruesome accidents. The Chinese motorman of a Shanghai trolley car, seeing that a big bomb was going to land in the street ahead of it, applied his brakes and yelled warnings to his 14 passengers, clanged his bell. An instant later the bomb exploded 20 feet in front of the trolley, blew it to blazes, killing the motorman, all his passengers and some people standing in the street, while other pedestrians who miraculously escaped found their clothes soaked...
When, following the War, the first few scattered bus lines strung short networks along rural roads, trolley cars, interurban electric lines and railroads had already pre-empted the best U. S. transportation routes. Slim indeed seemed the prospects of the infant bus industry. Last year the onetime infant had driven trolleys entirely out of 434 cities, had $690,000,000 worth of equipment, operated 1,389.000 miles of route, carried over 3,000,000,000 passengers, and its 4,780 bus companies had an aggregate income of $467,000,000. Of the 124,000 busses in service...