Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon imagination alone. Many a time college participation in town government has gummed up administrative processes. The green hills of Hanover still echo with the legendary story of the town meeting--at which students formerly voted--when the college delegation pushed through a bill for the construction of a subway line to Smith. It was left to the state legislature to repeal this measure. This playful attitude toward local administration finds its prototype at Harvard and numerous other universities...
...B.R.T., which went into receivership in 1918. It emerged as Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp., which now operates a subway connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan and another between Manhattan and Queens, as well as numerous elevateds, bus routes and trolleys in Brooklyn and Queens. B.M.T. makes money ($4,508,462 in fiscal...
...fare Independent Subway System, opened by the city in 1932 and operated at a net loss ever since ($17,962,000 in year ending June...
...previous merger proposals, subway bondholders would have exchanged their securities for bonds issued by a Board of Transit Control and not guaranteed by the city itself. Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City...
...subway sardine the most significant feature of the deal was the promise that the city would try keeping the 5? fare, on which it thinks it can break even with unification...