Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When unrest spread to Moscow, Stalin gave him extraordinary powers. Comrade Kaganovich built the famed Moscow subway; he also cast thousands of Moscovites into jail and changed Moscow into a bastion of the party line. Twice he undertook "pacification" measures in the restless Ukraine, and during World War II he reorganized the Soviet Union's dislocated railroad system, introduced the death penalty for failure to make schedules. Kaganovich was the first man to make servile speeches about Stalin's "genius." His sister Roza was Stalin's mistress, possibly his second wife...
...Actions by which a person freely gives to other his greatest values--health, life, soul, happiness--are love actions of the highest possible intensity," the director stated. Compare these, for example, with offering your seat to someone on the subway...
...used to have a very good sale on our bulldog edition, but with TV, the rise in subway fares, plus the rise in our own circulation price, our paper sales were hurt. Sunday night, for instance, is very dead. Then, too, the policy of the paper changed. Originally, it was written for the man in the street, but it became a conservative Republican paper. I could only sell the product they printed." To Annenberg, who owns "substantial" stock in the Chicago Tribune-New York News company (valued at $42,000 a share), the matter was far from settled...
SABOTAGE. The so-called "satchel bombs" that may be planted by saboteurs, landing parties or paratroopers in a future war are likely to explode in basements, subway stations or other underground places. Knowledge of their effect on subsurface conduits and structures will be valuable to both civil and military authorities...
...Reporting on an advertising campaign for the Roman Catholic Church that used car cards in Chicago buses, streetcars, subway and elevated trains for two months in 1954! Paulist Father Maurice Fitzgerald gave this score: of 5,339 people who responded by asking for information on Catholicism, 150 became converts. Average cost per convert, including textbooks, tests and diplomas: about $80. "There's nothing wrong with using advertising," said Father Fitzgerald. "It's basic to American life-it's the way we do things...