Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fare Independent Subway System, opened by the city in 1932 and operated at a net loss ever since ($17,962,000 in year ending June...
...franchise for a Manhattan subway was first offered at public auction in 1892. Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...
After the 1925 Legislature provided that the city must approve any unification plan devised by the Transit Commission, the Commission's Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer in 1930 offered to pay $489,000.000 for both companies. This was the highest price ever suggested, but B. M. T.'s square-jawed Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl held out for more...
...hangs a sign saying: JOE LOUIS IS A BUM. Two-ton Tony Galento-a lumpy, hog-fat heavyweight who won a sort of succès d'estime last year by bowling over fever-racked Nathan Mann faster than Joe Louis did-has been snarling defiance at Louis ever since scheming Fight Manager Joe Jacobs took him over three years ago. For the seven years before that, Tony Galento, who trains on beer and does his road work in kis sedan, had been aimlessly pasting palookas with his murderous left. Since then, however, he has been upsetting...
Standing higher in the final slating than they ever have before, the Harvard wrestling team tied with the Yale team for the third position in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament, held in New Haven last Friday and Saturday. Three members of the team, in the persons of "Chief" Boston, Bill Daughaday and Bruce Richardson, won all of the points...