| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In some instances, the automotive industry and others were directly responsible for the decline of public transportation.[13] The Great American streetcar scandal saw GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks and other companies purchase a number of streetcars and electric trains in the 1930s and 1940s, such that 90 percent of city trolleys had been dismantled
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