Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedraggled warehouse and stockyards district. Ike had been ordered not to stand in his car, because the streets were bumpy, but when he spotted a small boy jumping up & down on the curb, trying to see him, the general stood up and waved. When the car bumped across some trolley tracks, Ike was almost thrown, but Mamie reached up and supported him. TV cameras stationed along the way, together with mobile camera units, showed Ike's progress to the amphitheater, followed him through the hall's portals and on to the rostrum...
...process of being translated to the screen, Carrie has lost not only the Sister from its title, but also some of its biting naturalism and sociological compassion. Hurstwood's suicide is only suggested in the film. Gone entirely is the harrowing trolley-car strike in which the down & out Hurstwood worked as a strikebreaking conductor; and almost all the flophouse and begging sequences have been deleted. Dreiser set off his small people with large philosophizing about the moral hypocrisy of the times, but the movie is mostly just about small people. Although it hews to Dreiser's somber...
Snagless Zipper. Manhattan's Snag-Pruf Zipper Corp., which has been turning out a new nonjamming zipper for wholesalers at the rate of 100,000 a day, will sell it at retail for the first time this summer. The "trolley" can be removed from the tracks simply by pressing down on the tab used to pull it. Thus, any material that has been caught up can easily be freed...
Students rocked buses from side to side and gave trolley cars a thorough going-over, until the police arrived with a new weapon, tear gas bombs. The crowd retaliated with eggs, while eight from their midst were being arrested...
...rioters began to pull trolley poles from the wires, the police trotted out their trusty tear gas guns. They fired the gas right into the face of the crowd, but to no avail except for the fainting of one woman...