Word: interborough
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...last few years the only publicly-owned stock in United Electric Light & Power Co., a Consolidated Gas subsidiary, has been owned by the wife of Thomas E. Murray Jr., currently receiver for Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. All the rest of the stock was owned indirectly by Consolidated Gas. But merger of United Electric with other Consolidated power properties operating on the island of Manhattan was blocked by Mrs. Murray. Not that Mrs. Murray refused to sell her stock: she obligingly offered it to Consolidated last winter-at $4,500 per share...
...such, Commissioner O'Ryan personally supervised the ensuing robber hunt. Interborough bridges were scrupulously policed, suspicious-looking autoists halted and frisked for guns or loot. Up from Floyd Bennett Field soared two police planes to scout up the Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready...
...been thoroughly aware of Ivy Ledbetter Lee as the highest priced pressagent in the land, the suave representative (at one time or another) of Schwab, Chrysler, the Armours, Harvard University, Princeton, Thompson-Starrett Co., Portland Cement, the Guggenheims, the Red Cross, the Republic of Poland, New York's Interborough subway, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Waldorf-Astoria and-longest and most notably-the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Rockefellers...
...sake don't mention it. . . . You'll have all the other Schulte managers sending for it." Rich folk entered automats, got 20 nickels, ate nothing. Change was plentiful in the subways. "We're taking the place of them banksters," boasted an Interborough boothman...
...While election tellers squabbled loudly over the legality of proxies. Insurgent Director Amster listened gleefully to stockholders shouting disapproval of the management. Saying they understated their case, Chairman Straus summed up: "It is not only the Manhattan situation which is rotten, but I can go further and say that Interborough [Rapid Transit Co.] itself was born in iniquity." After seven hours of tumult. President Roberts of Manhattan Railway waved his arms in despair, yelled: "The meeting is yours." The Amster group then elected their own board and went home...