Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Famed capacity of French boxcars in World War I was 40 men and eight horses. Capacity of New York City subway cars averages 61 (sitting) plus 91 (standing), equals 152, plus as many more human herrings as subway guards can slam inside as the doors slide shut...
Famed also is the capacity of New Yorkers to endure the twice-daily pants-and-collar bum's rush from the guards-so much so that most of last week's New York City subway news roused no more impassioned attention than an advertising car card...
...local hit an open switch, plowed into an idle train on a Bronx siding. 2) E. J. Rigney, onetime Independent employe, went on trial, charged with scooping and pocketing from turnstile boxes 500,000 nickels ($25,000) in four years. Mr. Rigney was one of 36 subway employes accused of niching 30,000,000 nickels ($1,500,000). 3) City budgetmen tried to find out why the Transportation Board had awarded an $888,000 signal-system contract to the higher of two bidders...
Fourth item was somewhat less usual. Magistrate Michael A. Ford took up the case of a trio of respectable citizens accused of biting & scratching each other in a subway fight, ruled: biting & scratching is legal in subways, does not constitute disorderly conduct, because "herding of people like cattle" is enough to make anyone...
Beneath the new mayor's new shoes was the empty, sealed-up, $6,000,000 tunnel of the Locust Street subway. Outside, down Broad Street cavorted Philadelphia's spangled, jingling, slightly cockeyed annual Mummers' Parade...