Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green won and got the $40,000-a-year president's job. While car riders howled bitterly, Green won approval of a fare hike from 12? to 15?. He fired 800 employees, curtailed schedules, abandoned unprofitable trolley & bus lines...
...Free German Youth) members should quit work at 2:30 p.m. to join in. Truckloads of blueshirts came from camps, others poured by trolley and subway into assembly points along Berlin's east-west border. In ones and twos the Reds drifted casually into the Western sectors, suddenly congealed into solid, marching columns in three separate districts...
...months, when a Russian machine-gunned an American soldier to death. Their are many minor frictions, however. This week a British soldier was detained several hours one night by the Russians until recovered by his own M.P.'s. He had allegedly trespassed on Russian territory by getting off a trolley one stop too late...
...striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...
...Teruyo Tokunaga, setting out on a shopping trip to Tokyo, watched idly as a crowded train pulled into a Yokohama station. Two workmen were fixing a sagging overhead electric power line. As the train passed underneath, the power line tangled with the train's trolley. There was a blinding, bluish-white flash as 1,500 volts crackled into the train. Flames licked swiftly over the first two of the five wooden coaches. Motorman Akira Nakamura braked sharply, shut off the power and jumped from the cab, tried frantically to force the doors of the coaches with his hands. Because...