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Season 9 · Episode 12

Taken for a Ride

0.01h 0mAugust 6, 1996

This documentary exposes the role of General Motors' in the "Great American Street Car Scandal" of the 1930s. The scandal involved the dismantling of the street car transportation system in an effort to create demand for more automobiles.

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