Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people jamming the bars and hot spots and movies. Their way of life hasn't really changed a damn bit. They are a million miles away from the sufferings of war. Then one day I was riding on a subway and I heard one bastard say to another one: 'If this war lasts for two more years I'll be on easy street...
Hardly a street car or subway train left the barn. Flying squads in automobiles chased after the few that were already in operation. By noon every one of the city's 1,900 street cars, 632 buses and 541 subway and elevated cars were idle...
Mock Sickness. In predawn darkness, hundreds of Philadelphia's streetcar, subway and bus operators clumped into the sprawling, grimy carbarns as usual at 4 a.m. one morning last week. But as they checked in, one after another of them begged off work. They had an agreed excuse: "I'm sick - sick to my stomach." The cause of their mock sickness: eight Negro employes, who had been upgraded to motormen, were scheduled to make their first trial run that morning...
...left off last year, when he began several weeks leave to examine the craniums of 1500 Army Air Force flyers in an attempt to determine the average Air Force size. Professor Hooton's efforts last year centered in an attempt to find the perfect post-war trolley and subway seat, which he accomplished by measuring the derrieres of several thousand men and women in North Station and calculating the perfect posterior...
Frederick F. Lamont, Jr. '48 and Gordon P. Reed '48, originators of the new organization, have announced that the course is only 12 minutes from Harvard Square by subway. If present plans are completed, the group will play nine holes a day as often as the members are able to make the trip to Oakley...