Word: trolleycars
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...first shipload of U.S. arms to reach Italy under the U.S. Military Assistance Program approached its wharf last week, Naples was prepared for anything. But when the Exilona finally tied up at the pier, nothing happened. Communist organizers called on all Italian workers to strike forthwith. Six trolleycar motormen, five bus drivers, some armament workers and a spaghetti factory obeyed. Two of the bus drivers later changed their minds...
...Watson, 13, brother of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr.,* was in a trolleycar crash in San Francisco. Caught in the wreckage, he urged rescuers first to extricate Motorman Arthur K. Anderson. Said he: "I am all right. I am a Boy Scout." His leg was crushed, amputated. To go to Stanford University, to become a football star had been his ambition...
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