Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...West Germany, a day after the New York disaster, a U.S. Air Force Convair, carrying 13 holiday-bound University of Maryland students and a crew of seven, crashed in downtown Munich shortly after takeoff, heeled sharply into a two-section trolley car jammed with Christmas shoppers, and exploded into a fiery pyre. All aboard the plane and at least 60 Germans were killed...
Planned by John B. Sullivan and William J. Chase, the structure would go over the present trackless trolley enhance and exit at Mass Ave. and Cambridge St., opposite the Littauer Center. Excluded in the facilities would be an MTA passenger station and a parking lot on the ground floor...
...first the countryside communities leafed and budded with the homes of the well to do, who could afford to come and go by the seasons. By the turn of the century, U.S. Suburbia was flowering with permanent residents. Freed from the city by the trolley and rapid-transit services, and then by the automobile, hoisted gradually by a strengthening economy, the new middle-income families swept beyond the gates to buy homes of their own, from which they could commute to their jobs. When World War II ended, the sweep to the suburbs turned into a stampede. The veterans came...
...Trolley. In Jacksonville, Thomas H. Callahan explained to Judge John Santora that he was really waiting for a streetcar when the cops picked him up for vagrancy, got ten days in the clink anyway because there has not been a streetcar in town for 20 years...
...News-Post out of the doldrums by sending in a top troubleshooter. Managing Editor William Townes, 50. Ahead of the prosperous Sun papers in circulation, the News-Post had long played second fiddle in advertising revenue, as advertisers shunned a paper addressed almost exclusively to the city's trolley travelers. Townes vastly improved the paper, but was pulled out after two years-much too soon to have any permanent effect...