Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prospects of a skyscraper city, the profitable place for a subway system, were thwarted from the start; the mud banks didn't have any rock base on which to construct high buildings. While stony Manhatten Island packs over 85,000 people to the square mile with more being squeezed in every day, Boston manages only 18,000 and the figure is not going up. Inexpensive operation of a transit system in decentralized Boston is impossible. MTA authorities chose the fairest way out of their deficit problem when they hiked the fare from ten to fifteen cents...
...This was smothered at an early stage. The state fund was not big enough to take care of the MTA as well as necessary statewide projects. Furthermore, sectional opposition from the western part of the state insured defeat of the plan. This opposition also killed the proposal to consider subway track as public highway. This would have made the MTA eligible for a cut of the state gasoline tax. Finally, authorities looked hopefully at the New York system of obtaining revenue through city sales taxes. But this never got past the looking stage as the Massachusetts Constitution specifically prohibits levying...
...majority of students, the approach to knowledge is along a slushy Holyoke or puddle-pocked Plympton Street. But to many it is a more devious way, by streetcar or subway. For these last, the commuters, Dudley Center is the one place to eat, rest, and enjoy some of the congenial atmosphere associated with the term "college life...
...whole family because of the father's Socialism and pacifism. Emil Fuchs spent nine months in a concentration camp. One of Klaus's sisters, a painter, became an active anti-Nazi political worker, helped her husband to escape from Germany, jumped to her death beneath a Berlin subway train after persecution had unbalanced her mind. The father, insisting that his fight was in Germany, stayed there through the war although U.S. Quakers offered him refuge. He recently lectured in the U.S.; one of his pamphlets, Christ in Catastrophe, has been published by Pendle Hill, a Quaker organization...
...large number of colleges have succumbed to pressure from a certain type of alumnus, the "subway" alumni, coaches, and other people whose main interest is in sports...