Word: interborough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution is ingenious, will appeal to those who like a blend of mystery and mechanics. The technically expert setting shows the interior of one of Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit cars which whizzes past lights and stations. Co-Playwrights Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison have contrived an exciting addition to the season's many slaughters...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
...fare fight between the New York Transit Commission and the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (Mr. Chief Justice Taft had allowed this case to be moved ahead in the interest of millions of subway riders. It will be argued...
Elected. Patrick J. Connolly, elevated railway motorman with the (New York) Interborough Rapid Transit Co., and president of the Interborough's Brotherhood of employes; to be company director. He continues to get 86? an hour as motorman; will get nominal director's fees, nothing more...
...Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (one of New York's two subway systems) contracted with the City of New York in 1913 to give rides-for-a-nickel until 1968, when the line reverts to the city. After 15 years of experience, the I. R. T. has concluded that rides-for-a-nickel are economically obsolete. Last winter the I. R. T. asked the State authorities to authorize a 7-cent fare. Refused, the I. R. T. sought a Federal court order restraining New York City and State from preventing the collection of 7-cent fares, on the ground that...