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Arrest & Suicide. Violence and dis order continued to rule from the cities of the eastern river valleys to the western desert of Sinkiang. The deposed mayor of Shanghai was hauled through the city's streets atop a trolley car, his head bowed and a placard tied about his neck. Armed battles between pro-and anti-Maoist factions roiled the streets of Canton, and north of the city, in Kiangsi province, an army of anti-Mao peasants was reported gathering-and daring Mao's Red Guards to come and fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army...
Controversy keeps dogging Louis Elwood Wolfson. On grounds that he had milked the company of millions, the Government in 1956 refused to renew his contract to run the Capital Transit bus-and-trolley line in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Co., of which Wolfson is chairman and controlling shareholder, pleaded nolo contendere to charges of bribing a county official in Washington State to help win the big Priest Rapids Dam construction job; the company paid a penalty of $50,000. Also that year, the Securities & Exchange Commission charged that Wolfson tried to drive down the market in American...
Moreover, much of what irritates modern man is simply new noise traded in for old. The ear that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley. The whine of rubber tires replaces the bang and screech of unsprung cartwheels on cobblestones; the backfire supplants the ringing hooves of dray horses...
...Branford Trolley Museum in East Haven, Conn., got going in 1947, when New Haven decided to abandon trolleys. A handful of enthusiasts saw a chance to take over 1½ miles of the Branford line. Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition...
Third largest collection in the nation is at the grandly titled Orange Empire Trolley Museum in Ferris, Calif., 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Only eleven years old, it has ten acres of track and 60 cars, all of them out in the open. "We had to get the trolleys while the getting was good, and worry about fixing them later," apologizes Museum Secretary James Walker Jr. "It's not much of a show place now, but it will...