Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Words Alone. Gimbels did not rely entirely on the persuasive power of words. The thousands of women who spilled in from street and subway discovered that they had to penetrate a defense in depth...
...Tribune. When he tried to boost it higher and was offered a pay cut instead, F.P.A. submerged, surfaced his "Conning Tower" again on the New York Post. The Post fired him in 1941 because the Adams style of poetry a la Horace and Herrick was too fancy for the subway trade...
...Mike was in the spotlight again. Red Mike was once a fighter in the Irish Republican Army, once a lowly change maker in a New York City subway station. Now Michael Joseph Quill, 40, is president of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union and a member of New York's City Council. He is a practicing Catholic and a member of the American Labor Party...
...year for hurrying. New York subway guards picked up 7,800 abandoned umbrellas, 54,517 other articles, ranging from roasts of beef to copies of Forever Amber. U.S. airlines carried more passengers and freight, flew more miles than ever before. The railroads broke all records, both for transporting passengers and leaving them behind in stations...
...Critic. In Manhattan, John Mcllroy celebrated 30 years' work underground. His job: erasing mustaches on subway posters...