Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World's biggest bargain in rail travel is the 25-mi. ride to be had for 5? on New York City's subways. Nevertheless, many a skinflint succeeds in cheating the companies out of his fare by using slugs in the automatic turnstiles. Last week New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass...
...years ago, bound for a meeting. Mrs. Tubman was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of Communists got on, lustily sang the "Internationale." Patriot Tubman flushed red, white & blue, burst into "The Star-Spangled Banner." As the angry Communists sang louder, she pitched her voice higher & higher. More Communists got on. Finally Mrs. Tubman had to get off to attend her meeting...
Humbler Moscow folks had a party too last week. The first seven miles of the first subway in Russia opened for business with three days of free rides for the Tovarishchi who helped build it. Driven through quicksand and swampy ground in two years of furious if ill-directed digging, largely by volunteer workmen, there are many things about Moscow's new subway to cause serious engineers to shake their heads, but it easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what...
More earthy is Subway Technique: a leering woman with a bag of popcorn reacting favorably to the furtive advances of a subway masher in yellow gloves...
Before being appointed to excavate hard soil for Russia's first subway, engaging Engineer Ifremov was in charge of the Moscow Department of Mechanical Transport, ran it into a deficit of one million rubles before he was promoted...