Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentrated Allied bombing, in the summer of 1943, which left the city with nearly as many dead as were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed and many of Hamburg's sea captains have become trolley car conductors. Nearly 30,000 seamen drift from one odd job to another. Even the tough waterfront has lost its rowdy vitality. In the dark alleys, these nights, the stillness is broken now & then by the shuffling gait of a homeless seaman or the importuning of a hard-working streetwalker, dragging...
...Crimson has always prided itself, and justifiably so, on its record in fighting all forms of racial discrimination and prejudice in our community. And yet the CRIMSON itself does not seem aware of what freedom from prejudice necessarily involves. I refer to the article in Wednesday's edition headlined: "Trolley Hits Blind Colored Student...
...Whether the student is a Negro or a red Indian is completely irrelevant in this particular situation. The mention of his color is therefore completely unnecessary and unjustified. If Mr. John G. Simon '50 had been the victim of the accident the CRIMSON would not have headlined the story: "Trolley Hits Blond-Haired Student...
...need for Burke and his amplifier arises from the confluence of an inordinate number of cars, buses, trolley lines and subways in the Square. The loud-speaker idea has received a lot of publicity all over the country, and a man from "Life" has been around to photograph the whole contraption. As far as Burke knows, however, the Harvard Square booth is the only one of its kind in the country; a similar unit in Central Square closed down last year. Outside of its traffic control duties, the booth attracts a clamoring stream of information seekers. Burke is constantly assailed...
...spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades on any Main Street...