Word: trolley
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...afternoon in 1903 a Princeton student fell into a chance conversation with a stranger on a trolley. The stranger was a missionary, and what he had to say persuaded the student to go to India for a few months' work among the Untouchables. Last week, after 41 years in India, big, burly, British-born Sam Higginbottom, 70, left his "temporary" job and came back to the U.S. for good...
Prisoners can listen to a radio (but not short wave). They like American jazz. It is not unusual to see a K.P. detail sitting around a potato pile singing The Trolley Song with heavy Teutonic accent while they peel. In one compound, Don't Fence Me In is a favorite...
...Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
Bravely the Fitzgerald brothers moved into a city that has seen 41 streetcar companies go broke in 70 years, but still has a trolley system too small for the job. Soon after the turn of the century, 14 different companies were operating in Los Angeles, chiefly as sidelines for real-estate promoters. Their practice was to organize trolley lines from the city to their new subdivisions. Once the lots were sold, the lines went bankrupt...
...Junk the Trolley? As usual, E. Roy Fitzgerald, 51, the taciturn president of National City Lines, kept his plans for Los Angeles to himself and his brothers: Ed, 60,'the quiet, conservative treasurer; Ralph, 49, hard-driving boss of operations and maintenance; Kent, 45, who runs the Illinois operations for National; and John, 54, head of an independent bus line...