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The GM Trolley Conspiracy: What Really Happened - CBS News
Sep 2, 2010 · Did General Motors really plot to kill the streetcar in Los Angeles to build up a market for car ownership? BNET's Mark Henricks digs into the story.
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The real story behind the demise of America’s once …
May 7, 2015 · ”There’s this widespread conspiracy theory that the streetcars were bought up by a company National City Lines, which was effectively controlled …
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Mind-Blowing Facts About The General Motors Streetcar …
Did a conspiracy really destroy LA’s huge streetcar …
Sep 20, 2017 · In a 1998 essay debunking the streetcar conspiracy, Portland State University researcher Martha Bianco acknowledges that GM and its …
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Taken for a Ride - Wikipedia
The film continues into a description of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy, starting with a history of National City Lines and Pacific City Lines and General Motors' investment in both …
GM Conspiracy to Kill Streetcars? Not By Itself
May 18, 2015 · One of the central beliefs in the heart of many U.S. railfans is that the golden age of streetcars was cruelly crushed by a 1940’s conspiracy led by General Motors and petroleum and tire companies in an illegal scheme to sell …
Great American streetcar scandal - Wikicars
The Great American streetcar scandal (also known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy and the National City Lines conspiracy) is a conspiracy<ref>Hicks, Robert Eldridge (1973) …
The Evil Genius Behind the General Motors Streetcar …
Nov 24, 2015 · On April 10, 1947, New York Attorney General Clark announced the indictment of nine corporations (among them, GM) and seven individuals (not among them - Alfred P. Sloan) on antitrust charges...
The Great American Streetcar Myth - Foundation for Economic …
With car-borne constituents and an economic ideology to defend, modern day progressives have apparently found their own culpability in the rise of the suburbs too tough a pill to swallow, and …
From the Archives: Did Auto, Oil Conspiracy Put the …
Mar 23, 2003 · The consortium of General Motors, Standard Oil, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Phillips Petroleum and Mack Truck Manufacturing Co., in turn, blamed the Red and Yellow cars’ demise on Angelenos’ love...
Vintage: General Motors streetcar conspiracy - MONOVISIONS
Jan 2, 2022 · Most of the companies involved were convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce in the sale of buses, fuel, and supplies to NCL subsidiaries, but were …
Be Careful How You Refer to the So-Called 'Great American …
Jun 3, 2013 · Greenwald writes that in the early-to-middle 20th century a consortium of automotive interests (led by General Motors) bought up streetcar lines in a number of cities and converted …
The Decline of Transit: A Corporate Conspiracy or Failure of …
Oct 14, 2011 · In his 1974 testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Bradford Snell lay partial blame for the decline of mass transit in the United States …
The Truth Behind Los Angeles' Streetcar Demise - MSN
Feb 6, 2025 · Was the death of Los Angeles' streetcar system a corporate conspiracy, or just an inevitable shift to the automobile age? This video examines the factors that led to the decline …
Debunking the General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy : r/fuckcars
Apr 29, 2022 · GM was prosecuted for buying transit companies and then having the transit companies be customers for General Motors buses. General Motors was effectively being its …
Conspiracy theory: Where have all the streetcars gone?
Dec 24, 2012 · Here's the conspiracy theory in which Los Angeles played a major role: from the 1930s into the 1950s, a company created and financed by General Motors, Firestone Tire, …
General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Alchetron
Dec 2, 2023 · The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to convictions of General Motors (GM) and other companies for monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City …
The General Motors vs. San Diego Electric Railway streetcar …
A 1974 inquiry in the Senate heard allegations about the role that General Motors and other companies, including Pacific City Lines, played in the dismantlement of streetcar systems …
Projet:Correction syntaxique/Analyse 564 — Wikipédia
Cette page contient une analyse d'un dump pour les erreurs n°564 (Paramètre inconnu).. Elle peut être générée avec par tout utilisateur. Elle est normalement mise à jour automatiquement …