Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheel hadn't collapsed when it caught in a downtown trolley track yesterday, David K. Specter '52 would have bicycled to New Haven today for the Yale game. Others are using loss hardy modes of transportation...
...that trolley cars have gone, one of New Haven's perennial post-game problems is solved. Police still remember the time that a squadron of students removed a goalpost intact from the Bowl, placed it on the trolley tracks, and succeeded in derailing a car, all of which held up traffic for over an hour...
Before the last wagonload of brawling students left the Square, police had thwarted an attempt to immobilize a Lochmere-bound trolley and the Cambridge fire department had answered one false alarm in the riot area...
Trouble started when a trackless trolley attempting to get through the Square and its trolley poles removed by students. Police immediately began removing students to the Cambridge police headquarters...
Workmen began the job in March, 1948. For a year and a half they drilled and blasted, shovelled and hauled while irate motorists detoured through the red lights, trolley tracks, and back alleys of New Haven...