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The most spectacularly sleazy bus conversion was in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Criminal Vultures in the Twin Cities
Gangster Isadore Blumenfield, aka Kid Cann (right), was one of many thugs to cash in on the Twin Cities bus conversion. He probably murdered crusading journalist Walter Liggett (left), but threatened/bribed jurors to stay out of jail.
800 Pound Gorilla
After getting kicked out of Portland OR in 1935, General Motors created front company National City Lines to destroy electric rail lines.
New Jersey engineer Jay Quinby (left) researched and exposed General Motors' and co-conspirators' anti-tram scheming. Federal antitrust prosecutor William C Dixon hounded General Motors and other anit-streetcar conspirators over the 1940s and '50s. Inadequate laws, however, hindered his efforts.
