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...flag that hung from the balcony of their union headquarters across the street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: How Long | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Partisans Follow Team By Plane, Train, Auto, Bus | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Haven Awaits Game, Anticipates Peace, Profits | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Arrest 15 in Square As Riot Follows Tiger Rally | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Arrest 15 in Square As Riot Follows Tiger Rally | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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