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...projected Rockefeller library that decision to build it forced the League of Nations far out into Geneva's inconvenient suburbs. The town's jangling "Toonerville Trolley" line was to have been extended out to the $10,000,000 League Palace, but last week tight-fisted Geneva burghers snorted: "The municipality has no funds for such a purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Elephant White | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Adding complications to the traditionally chaotic traffic situation on Harvard Square, wire stringers, perched atop construction trucks, have been laying the overhead foundations for a new trolley bus line. The buses will operate between the Square and Lechmere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experimental Bus Foreshadows Chaotic Square Cluttered Up With Self-Steering Trolley Buses | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...management process a tremendous potential momentum toward Inflation has been built up. If this force is not properly braked, most disinterested observers agree that the U. S. may go on a reckless ride which would make the boom of the 1920's seem like a harmless trolley trip. Indeed, there is some doubt whether the Board can keep this momentum Bunder control, because many of the inflationary threats lie not upon the records in its rented quarters across from the Treasury but in the cloak rooms of the Capitol. Last week inflationary sentiment in Congress burned brighter than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Banks & Brakes | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...surely off your trolley in your reply to Dr. Langdon's letter (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Exempt from all except safety and labor regulations, thanks to potent Washington lobbies, are trucks used exclusively for carrying newspapers, fish, livestock and farm produce, all trucks owned by farmers' co-operative associations, private manufacturers and merchants. Totally exempt are school buses, hotel buses, trolley buses, taxicabs and buses & trucks engaged only in intrastate commerce. The Federal law will directly affect about 50,000 trucks, 100,000 buses. However, since every State but Delaware has some measure of motor carrier regulation, the new law will in effect do little more than stabilize an industry in which the big units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Boss for Buses | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

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