Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three full cadet teams will arrive in Boston tonight with a workout scheduled in the stadium tomorrow. West Pointers, 1000 strong, will pull into the Huntington Avenue station Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, ride the subway out, and then make their traditional marching entrance into the Yard...
...special ramp for Willkie's car has already been constructed next to the subway wall near the Common. According to the local Willkie Committee, the Republican candidate will speak from his car over a public address system to people in the Common...
...stop here at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, just long enough in its tour through the environs of Boston for the Republican nominee to give a short talk at the west side of the Common. A special ramp for Willkie's car will be constructed next to the subway wall, from which he will speak over a public address system...
...purpose for which they were not originally intended, namely as dormitories." Even totalitarian Berlin has insufficient shelters for dormitory purposes. London is up against appalling conditions of insanitation, lack of adequate toilet facilities and foul air as tens of thousands of people spend night after night sleeping on subway platforms, nodding on escalators which have been stopped until dawn, and huddled or sprawled in warehouses...
...civilian army was busy this week with plans for building tiers of bunks in the subway stations. Minister of Food Lord Woolton had already provided 20 centres for distributing hot meals of beef stew, rice pudding and tea at eightpence each. London housewives whose stoves might not be functioning at home could go to municipal kitchens to cook meals. Women of the National Conference of Labor urged the Government to fix food prices, claiming that British living costs have risen 32% since break of war. Wages have also risen. With Britain now spending on her war effort more than five...