Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's Fusionist Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was given: 1) permission to exempt from the city's constitutional debt limit a new bond issue up to $315,000,000 for a unified city-owned subway system; 2) a Home Rule provision restricting the power of the legislature to interfere in city affairs by passing "emergency laws...
...Juror No. 7 was missing. After a whispered colloquy with a court clerk he announced. "Juror No. 7 is absent under rather peculiar circumstances." Juror No. 7, a Miss Vivian Morrison, 52, was being convicted in another Manhattan court of using a slug instead of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Judge Nott declared a mistrial. Approximate cost to the State of the subway slug...
...well as being one of the noisiest and most crowded in the world, the New York subway system is also the safest. Over its 230 miles of track bed, 8,755 electric trains clatter daily on split-minute headway, carrying well over 1,500,000,000 passengers every year, more than three times as many as ride each year on all the big U. S. railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand...
...year granted by still-sound de-Insullated operating companies, he returned to Paris from a brief visit to the U. S. just in time to watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped. In his hand he still clutched his subway ticket. In his pocket...
...Ohio was hoping last week for a World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Cleveland Indians, who were leading the American League (in a tie with the New York Yankees) on the Fourth. Level-headed experts, however, still favored the Yankees and Giants to meet in another subway series in New York City next October. If the Reds, who were seven games behind the league-leading Giants last week, should come home in front, Bill McKechnie, who won pennants for the Pirates (1925) and Cardinals (1928) during his 15-year career as big-league manager,* will be the first...