Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrong Line. In Philadelphia, arrested for stealing a streetcar and operating it while drunk, Kendrick Jackson explained sadly: "I asked a man for directions and he told me to take a trolley...
...recently as low as 150,000, was climbing again to 800,000. Men, women & children worked side by side in the streets hauling away rubble in improvised rattan sledges. Streetcars, blistered, bullet-pocked and windowless, picked their way cautiously along the city's network of trolley tracks; 15 of Seoul's prewar fleet of 150 buses wheezed and coughed along cratered streets. Two brand-new fire engines had just been delivered from Japan...
Checker Tournament. In St. Louis, city checkers checking the passenger capacity of the Public Service Co. bus and trolley routes were trailed by company checkers checking the accuracy of the city's check, while Missouri Public Service Commission checkers checked on the checking of both groups...
...Year. Another of his letters, suggesting that a local Airedale was "a perfect Hollywood glamour girl," brought "comments by the dozens and dozens," he told us. "The rector called me on the phone to give his blessing; a man stopped me on the trolley to say how much he liked the . . . letter, and a friend told me she enjoys reading 'my stuff in TIME...
...second in two consecutive days on Massachusetts Avenue, held up resh hour traffic at 5:50 p.m. yesterday, when a Square bound trackless trolley collided with a passenger car at Hancock Street...