Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steel. For U. S. Steel's annual meeting Chairman Myron Charles Taylor and a battalion of executives, clerks, lawyers and pressagents piled into a Manhattan subway one morning last week, dived under the Hudson River to Hoboken, N. J. where U. S. Steel maintains its legal residence. Among stockholders awaiting Mr. Taylor's arrival was one William Snelling, a knickerbockered 14-year-old from Allentown, Pa. who said he was in the ink business with his younger brother. Having bought one share of U. S. Steel for $30 in 1932 and watched it climb to last week...
...University has its own subway cable car crossing Mass. Ave. The top of the Boston subway tube is but two feet under the surface of the street, and through this two feet must pass Harvard's main heating tunnel from the Houses to the Yard...
...that engineers may also pass, a small cart has been placed in the tunnel. Thus, lying prone on the cart, with the trolleys a few inches above the nape of his neck and the subway just below him, the engineer grasps a cable and draws himself and cart through the tunnel...
...Arthur Cutts Willard, 58, president of the University of Illinois; the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal of the American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers : for work as an engineer, teacher, author and consultant on the ventilating systems of the Holland Tunnel, the U. S. Capitol, the proposed Chicago subway. Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president and research director of General Motors Corp. ; the Washington Award for engineering (bronze plaque on marble base) : for "contributions to the increase of personal mobility" and eloquent advocacy of the cause of research. Roger Adams, 47, chemistry department head of the University of Illinois...
From Manhattan's Greenwich Village, where struggling artists exhibit their pictures, to 57th Street, where successful artists do the same thing, takes 15 minutes in the subway. It has taken many a worthy artist half a lifetime to make that journey. A show last week at the swank uptown Walker Galleries, attended by all the first-string critics of the city, showed that 27-year-old Joe Jones, onetime St. Louis housepainter, could make it in seven months. His first one-man show in Manhattan was held in Greenwich Village's A. C. A. Gallery last May, promptly...