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...Loop and the crowded streetcar clanged south on State Street almost as if they were guided by an evil hand. Both got to a rail turnoff near 63rd Street at the same instant. A flagman waved a warning at the streetcar-a switch had been opened to detour trolley traffic around the flooded pavement ahead. But No. 7078 did not stop...
Twenty MTA workmen yesterday began a six-weeks job of raising the trolley tracks in the Square to prepare for city road pavers. The tracks must be made three inches higher before Cambridge can give Massachusetts Avenue a new asphalt finish from Garden Street to the Square...
Last week in Moscow, Communist Mother Russia trod briskly down the trail blazed by Herr Goebbels. The Soviet Academy of Sciences decided to thoroughly Russianize the Russian language, which is liberally endowed with words borrowed from French, German and English (samples: khuligan-hooligan, trolleibus-trolley bus, stend-stand. "In most cases," said Academician A. M. Terpigorev, "these foreign words can be substituted by Rus sian words ... A scientific terminology cluttered with foreign words is intolerable." While the Russian language was going nationalist, it was also going imperialist...
...Pressure. While Pawley paced the floor in his $85-a-day Hotel Nacional suite, Prío postponed official announcement of the deal and rallied his forces. Led by the conductors, whom Pawley had promised to keep on the job, the trolley union lined up behind the new plan. Straphangers enthusiastically supported Prío for forcing action to rid Havana of its noisy, run-down trolleys. The influential weekly Bohemia hailed Pawley as "one of the most distinguished figures in the U.S., whose various enter prises, including aviation firms in India and China, make his biography a true teaching...
...last week President Prío felt strong enough to issue his decree. Under its terms, Pawley's Autobuses Modernos will get the trolley firm's franchise for the next 25 years. In about four years' time, when Bill Pawley expects the bus operation to be rolling in high gear, he plans to step out. Meanwhile, he will collect 4% interest on his $3,000,000 capital outlay. He will also he says, "be well paid by the company as president and manager...