Word: interborough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years most New Yorkers have agreed on a program for bettering the lot of the subway sardine: 1) unification of the city's three systems (Interborough Rapid Transit. Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, the city-owned Independent) under municipal ownership & operation; 2) maintenance of the 5? fare; 3) more subways to relieve congestion. But the history of Unification reads like a machine-age edition of Pilgrim's Progress. The city had to find ways & means of setting aside contracts with IRT and BMT (good until 1967, 1969), raising money enough to buy out private interests. After nearly 20 years...
...Little Flower, acting in his capacity as magistrate, signed a warrant for the arrest of Julius Stolz, president of Interborough News Co., distributors of Man to Man. Then he bustled to a police station, jumped up behind the lieutenant's desk, heard the complaint (offering for sale an "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent or disgusting book or magazine"), released Distributor Stolz in $5,000 bail...
...Corp., R. C. A., Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank & Trust Co.. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Studebaker Corp. In later years, Lawyer Cravath rarely tried a case or wrote a brief, but engineered some notable reorganizations: Westinghouse, Missouri Pacific R. R., Interborough Rapid Transit Co. A globetrotter, diner-out, music-lover (he became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera in 1931), Paul Cravath served in many a public enterprise, was decorated for his part in World War I missions...
...York City has three subway systems: I. R. T. (Interborough Rapid Transit), B. M. T. (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) and Independent (city-owned...