Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of the Coop, has been made progressively safer. In addition to a traffic light, a policeman with a loud speaker was added last year to the protection force. In fact the foot traveler is now ridiculously safer there then he is on the other side of the subway island, or in from of Phillips Brooks House...
...Indians did it. And I'm glad--as glad as a Yankee fan can be. Because thank the Lord there will be no subway series in Boston. This should at least take some of the steam out of the Boston papers...
...other privately owned lines, 7? on city-owned lines. On some buses he put the extra penny (or pennies) in the coin box, on some he handed it to the driver, on others he dropped it in a special tray. He paid 6? to transfer to the subway from a private line, 5? from a city line, and could not transfer to the subway at all from the Fifth Avenue line. For a transfer from a subway (10?) to a bus, he paid...
...Transport Workers' President Mike Quill, who had already led 40,000 of Manhattan's subway, bus and elevated operators out of the Communist-dominated Greater New York C.I.O. Council, locked horns with his own Communist-dominated international executive board. When the board refused to endorse Harry Truman, Mike countered by kicking out smart, swarthy Harry Sacher as lawyer ($6,000 a year) for T.W.U.'s Local 100. Said Quill: "He is a conniving member of the Communist Party and he has connived with the party to wreck the union. Sacher has an ego like a peacock...
Socialist Labor: for president, Edward A. Teichert, 44, a Greensburg, Pa. steelworker; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, 40, a Manhattan subway dispatcher. The party has run candidates for President since 1892, polled 45,000 votes in 1944. It advocates Marxism, opposes Wallace because he "stands for the preservation of the capitalist system...