Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ovaltine & Love. Gladys, another of the questing four, handed out nickels in a subway booth and roomed with a girl friend named Winnie. "They were always making Ovaltine and talking till all hours of the night. About deep things. Like love and why you do what you do." One day Winnie was run over by a taxi. Gladys "wanted a minister to say something about [Winnie] at the funeral." But all the ministers said sorry, it was the Easter rush; they had no time. Gladys began to wonder what God really was. She saw a stained-glass window that said...
Nickels were not paying the subway's keep: by July 1, the city's transit system would be $54 million in debt. Its power stations were just about gone (repair cost, over $100 million), its rolling stock worn and rattly, its tracks older than the Ancient Mariner, its stations full of old newspapers and old vomit...
Mayor O'Dwyer took a deep breath, crossed his fingers and asked Governor Thomas E. Dewey to authorize an extra $142 million for the city's tax bill-almost one-third of it for subway rehabilitation. The city's annual budget was already second only to the Federal Government's. A few appalled city councilmen suggested raising the subway fare to 8? instead. But the council majority, long sold on the vote appeal of the nickel fare, vetoed the suggestion...
...subway's only counterpart, for measuring purposes, was London's vast and profitable Underground-a public utility with private stockholders, run by a transport board responsible to the county government. The Underground had to show a profit every year, without benefit of subsidies, or go into receivership. How did it manage...
...subway train, an empty space...