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Real grass was dried, powdered, and sprinkled over the University courtyards and Charles River Banks. Over 1000 trolley cars and automobiles jam the streets in their customary inextricable tangle. For days, the artists struggled to paint trolley rails, but couldn't make the two-dimensional lines realistic. Finally they hit upon the idea of using shellacked threads, and finished the track-laying in half an hour...
...Soviet Federal Reserve. In the '30s at Stalin's order. Nikolai Bulganin. rising executive, was elected chairman of the Moscow Soviet-for six years he was in effect mayor of Moscow (his successor:Nikita Khrushchev). Bulganin traveled abroad, bringing back such improvements as a fleet of trolley buses, a manual of French traffic 20 signals and an order for natty white gloves for Moscow's traffic cops...
Return Engagement. In Philadelphia, Trolley Operator Edward Palumbo identified Walter Green as the man who had grabbed his bag containing change on the outbound trip, jumped off the car, waited for Palumbo to return on his inbound trip, hopped aboard again and snatched Palumbo's money changer...
After the freshman glee club sang, the throng pushed through the Yard gates onto Massachusetts Avenue. There, they halted traffic and a few climbed on cars. The only casualty of the evening resulted after a freshman tried to pull off the wire of a trackless trolley. He cut himself when a Yard proctor pulled him down...
...their trolley poles, which point...