Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's 35-year-old transit troubles. Most New Yorkers long since decided what they wanted-unification of the three lines and a guaranteed 5? fare. But for 18 years the Unification Express has been rattling past stations, stalling in dark tunnels. Suddenly last week, to the general public's surprise, it slowed for a stop. Tentative acceptance of the city's offer to buy the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. for $175,000,000 brought unification closer than it had ever...
...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...
When peppery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia took office in 1934, he designated Samuel Seabury and A. A. Berle Jr. to try again. Their $436,000,000 proposal was rejected after public hearings by the Transit Commission as too high. This brought bitter words between the commission and Mayor LaGuardia. but last year they got together for a final...
...from waving his shares in the public's face, Joseph Errington last week clenched his cigar, said he had no intention of putting the stock up for public sale, said he did intend to start shipping Steep Rock Lake ore east to Lake Superior...
...Administration attempt to enlist public opinion behind the peace effort came as the A. F. L. - C. I. O. conferees themselves admitted privately that they saw little likelihood of settling immediately their struggle for supremacy...