Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end some of George's strength began to wane. Leaders of the A.F.L. trolley union, who had respected his picket lines for 18 days, sent their men back to the streetcars and buses. The coal truckers said to hell with George-and 384 of the Triangle's buildings got a full head of steam again...
...Haven the boys stormed out of Woolsey Hall full of fire and the love of Old Eli. They swarmed across the Green, lifted a heavy wooden booth off the Courthouse steps as if it were a match box, dumped it in the middle of the trolley tracks...
...Pittsburgh jerked along, still harassed by the strike of 3,500 employes of the Duquesne Light Co. (TIME, Oct. 7). There was no violence. Pittsburgh just suffered, got along with barely adequate power, depended on autos for transportation; A.F.L. trolley and bus drivers still refused to cross the Duquesne workers' picket lines. Some 100,000 people were thrown out of work. Only hope for a settlement on the 13th day of the strike: Government seizure of Duquesne Light...
...muddle and a strange political campaign. On July 16 the city will go to the polls and decide whether to recall Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham. Some San Franciscans wanted to oust him because his administration had put through a 3? fare rise on the city's rattletrap trolley lines. To add to the doctors' confusion, when they first hit town the trolleys were not even running. They were strikebound...
...Mayor, he charged, had acted arrogantly in the matter of the trolley-fare boost (from 7? to 10?). Thousands of San Franciscans signed. Lapham signed the petition himself-so the proposal could be put on the June 4 primary ballot, thus save the city the expense of a special election. Budde did not gather enough valid signatures in time, but he got them later; a special election was decreed...