Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When you climb out of the IRT subway at the Morningside Heights station, you are flanked on one side by the noisy, dirty Amsterdam area of New York, and on the other by Columbia University, a polyglot jumble of tall buildings and patches of grass, watching indifferently over the bustling metropolitan scene...
...City location poses certain problems for administrators and students alike. The biggest of these is that of the commuter. Over half of Columbia's students are from New York City; about 800 of these are "carpetbaggers"--men who commute from homes in the metropolitan area. Most of them face subway rides of from one to three hours daily--consuming time that could otherwise be turned to extra curricular or social life...
...Herter HQ was the nearest to the subway, directly opposite the Parker House. On the eleventh floor, squeezed in two miniscule rooms sat a large woman, languidly typing and starting at the large face of Christian A. Herter pinned to the opposite wall. She referred us to the publicity man, who worked out of an equally small office one floor below...
Socialist Labor. For President, Eric Hass, editor of the party organ, The Weekly People; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, a New York subway dispatcher. Hass, who dismisses British Laborites as "phony Socialists," is plumping for establishment of a "Socialist Industrial Republic" with a legislature based on industrial rather than geographic divisions...
...canals in Nebraska, often got jobs by bidding for them at cost, figuring that prices would drop enough afterward for him to make a profit (they did). By 1938, he was big enough to handle more than $6,000,000 in contracts to help build Chicago's new subway. When World War II came, says Kiewit, "We really began to roll...