Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women "defy restrictions with monumental hats that take six meters of fabric to erect. . . . They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway. In poorer quarters, eyes have the wolfish glare that must have reflected the guillotine under that other terror...
...needle in a man's foot, though the X ray showed it clearly. So Dr. Alexander Edwin William Ada, of Manhattan, who had never heard of anyone's getting a needle out of a heart before, decided to use the pencil-like electronic metal detector invented by Subway Engineer Samuel Berman (TIME, Aug. 30). It had been used successfully on 22 Pearl Harbor wounds...
London morale dropped, not greatly but perceptibly. Citizens growled because the government refused to open newly built deep shelters. They recalled 1940 when shelter seekers brushed police aside and forcibly took possession of subway stations...
Efficiency, Anyhow. But London could still take it, with efficiency if not with exaltation. Londoners went to work immediately, helping to pick up the wounded, douse the fires, begin repairs. Subway shelters . became popular sleeping places again; attendance in the crowded theaters and restaurants dropped off noticeably...
Some of Anna's fame as an expert on labor relations comes from her exploits: she loves to put on overalls and hip boots to crawl into a subway tunnel or down an Adirondack iron mine 3,000 ft. But as regional War Manpower commissioner, she has done a first-rate job in New York. There she evolved the "Buffalo Plan" that became the national model for the manipulation of manpower shortages, from Connecticut to California (TIME, Sept. 27). She is an old hand at soft-soaping labor and management into agreements; a 1038 New Yorker profile said...