Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supplementing the stadium spot-check there will be records kept o fall resales of student date, section tickets to insure that students have first choice in obtaining returns, and that last minute sales are to graduates rather than to "subway alumni...
...paralyzing of the economy, the arming of the workers and the winning over of the armed forces to become allies of the workers for the purpose of overthrowing the Government." He had often conferred with Santo, he said, explaining that "Santo's job was to organize the subway system in the City of New York...
...liberal and an exacting administrator. He had performed miracles of political acrobatics. But New Yorkers had grown to think of him not so much as a political force but as a manifestation of sound and movement-shrill, vehement, energetic and cacophonous, as oddly comforting as the roar of the subway and the bleat of taxi horns...
...sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need not end their careers in hopeless frustration...
Mother Moscow's city fathers were working to get her in shape for a formal presentation to history. Streets were repaved, automobiles were ordered specially polished and passengers with overly bulky bundles barred from the elegant subway. Even the underground river Neglinka, got a new concrete conduit in place of the old wooden...