Hybrid Car by Nustians (Pakistan)

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While it is so easy to be cynical; there are changes taking place (slowly unfortunately) in the subcontinent. Earlier, similar things used to be said in India as well; but times are changing now. These young men should be supported in their endeavours and especially to ensure that they do not have to leave their country. This will help to ease pressure on scarce resources and that is a great cause.
Hope that this achievement receives full publicity.

I agree to your post. If you said something like this 15 yrs or so ago, I would poke that hope balloon with a little pin call reality. Things are very different now.

BD is not growing as fast as China or India, but its growing. When I left for USA in 1991 you either had to know folks or be real brilliant in academics.

Batch mates that stayed, almost all of them are doing very good indeed. The hopelessness is not there anymore. Well corruption is still there, but seems like people are demanding more accountability.

Brain drain will be a substantial issue for years more to come in the sub-continent. Only when the opportunities are somewhat similar, more brilliant students will choose to stay.

The sub-continent has a long way to go, but it is way better then what it was 15 yrs ago.

 

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Great American streetcar scandal


The Great American streetcar scandal (also known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy and the National City Lines conspiracy) is a conspiracy theory in which streetcar systems throughout the United States were dismantled and replaced with buses in the mid-20th century as a result of alleged illegal actions by a number of prominent companies, acting through National City Lines (NCL), Pacific City Lines (on the West Coast, starting in 1938), and American City Lines (in large cities, starting in 1943).

National, which had been in operation since 1920, was organized into a holding company, and General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack, and the Federal Engineering Corporation made investments in the City Lines companies in return for exclusive supply contracts.Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines bought out more than 100 electric surface-traction systems in 45 cities,[4] including Detroit, Cleveland, New York City, Oakland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, and replaced them with GM buses. American City Lines merged with National in 1946.

On April 9, 1947, nine corporations and seven individuals (constituting officers and directors of certain of the corporate defendants) were indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on two counts under the U.S. Sherman Antitrust Act. The charges, in summary, were conspiracy to acquire control of a number of transit companies to form a transportation monopoly, and conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies to companies owned by the City Lines.
The proceedings were against Firestone, Standard Oil of California, Phillips, General Motors, Federal Engineering, and Mack (the suppliers), and their subsidiary companies: National City Lines, Pacific City Lines, and American City Lines (the City Lines).
The Seventh Circuit Court summarized the history of the arrangement this way:
"On April 9, 1947, nine corporations and seven individuals, constituting officers and directors of certain of the corporate defendants, were indicted on two counts, the second of which charged them with conspiring to monopolize certain portions of interstate commerce, in violation of Section 2 of the Anti-trust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 2. The American City Lines having been dismissed, the remaining corporate and individual defendants were found guilty upon this count.

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