Word: trolleyers
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...Lancaster, Pa., after clashes with club-swinging police, employes of the Conestoga Transportation Co. ended a strike that had tied up bus-trolley service for 26 days...
...Americans came to Korea (then known as the Hermit Kingdom) in 1882, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, built the country's first trolley line, rail way and waterworks. The Japanese, after defeating Russia in 1904-05, made Korea their colony and highroad to Manchuria. They gave it modern transport, developed its mines, exploited its farms, opened Shinto shrines...
Actress Judy Garland, who sings it in the picture, and who last winter sent The Trolley Song down the track to success, says that friends are calling her "Miss Transportation of 1945." Song Writer Mercer, explaining that he dashed off the lyrics in an hour, says: "I saw the name on a boxcar once - thought it had a nice, lyrical quality...
...Beside a bookcase in Hitler's personal room in the battle-wrecked Chancellery the sleuths found a thin concrete removable panel. Behind was a man-sized hole leading to a super-secret concrete shelter, far underground and 500 meters away. Another tunnel connected the shelter with an underground trolley line. Food scraps in the shelter indicated that from six to twelve people had stayed there as late as May 9, V-E day plus...
...Your change, senhor," said the waiter, tossing onto the marble-topped coffee table: some aspirin tablets, a string of trolley-car tickets and a postage stamp. For months, metal change has disappeared from Brazil's inflation-ridden economy...