Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rotary traffic under the new system involves more than merely an automotive merry-go-round. In addition to keeping traffic circulating around the kiosk in a counter-clockwise direction, the current plan involves the elimination of all trolley-busses and removal of trolley-car track. To speed subway traffic, the exit on Massachusetts Avenue near Wadsworth House has been turned into another entrance. Bus loading stations have been moved from the kiosk to in front of the Coop, and the traffic booth and traffic lights both eliminated...
...World. In Blackpool, England, Violet Brindle protested that, in an effort to make her quit her job as a streetcar conductor, her husband had 1) blocked her trolley line by haranguing a crowd about his troubles, 2) burned the skirt of her conductor's uniform, 3) burned the supper peas...
Mexico's rickety, government-owned railroads, which have averaged a wreck a week for the last six months, are responsible for almost as many jokes as the Toonerville Trolley. In a current vaudeville skit, the spurned lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
...Hygiene Department has a fine big building near the trolley tracks on Mt. Auburn Street for the care and feeding of mild illnesses. Students who have managed to avoid stretch at Stillman don't know what they're missing, those who have been there find the experience unforgettable...
...chief advocates of such a match met on a recent Saturday at a tea party at Godesberg, just down the trolley line from Bonn. The host was Christian Democrat Leader (and Bonn Delegate) Andreas Hermes, who later stated his views: "We Germans have been maneuvered apart . . . We can no longer watch silently and passively developments that would lead to further splitting of Germany." The guest of honor was 76-year-old, grey-haired former (1933-34) German ambassador to Moscow, Rudolf Nadolny, otherwise (and accurately) known as Germany's "Pink eminence...