Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its loud gloom, its indecent crowding, its filth and uriniferous odors, New York City's swift, nickel-fare, 244-mile municipal subway system is the envy of other U.S. cities. This week, as every week, New Yorkers wondered...
...Union, led by Communist-line Mike Quill, had threatened to strike (TIME, March 4). When Mayor William O'Dwyer and public opinion stood firm, Mike Quill finally backed down. But the city's victory was only partial-it had just gained a calm opportunity to ponder the subway's physical and financial...
...York City, which last month weathered a ten-day tie-up by striking tugboat operators, now faced the threat of a far more serious strike: on all city-owned subway, elevated, streetcar and bus lines...
Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had backpedaled before a Quill strike threat only a month before (over a proposed sale of the city's subway power plants to Consolidated Edison) seemed helpless to move anywhere this time. The city's counsel, John J. Bennett Jr. had issued a ruling: "It is clear that no one group of civil-service employes can be granted sole and exclusive bargaining rights as against a governmental body such as the [New York City] Board of Transportation...
...Mayor's order was issued at 9:40 P.M. Within two hours all bars and night clubs began ushering their patrons out. Next day the city was a monument to confusion. Policemen stationed at all subway entrances told people to go back home. All bars, movies, theaters, museums and libraries were shut. Window shopping was the order of the day. Until the strike was settled, the city was dead...