Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Heresy. Ever since he was hit by a subway strike barely five hours after he assumed office a year ago, Lindsay has been involved in an almost constant courtship of calamity. After the transit strike came a fare hike, and neither of them endeared him to voters. Faced with an empty treasury, he imposed a new city income tax and made the New York Stock Exchange consider exile across the Hudson because of an increased stock-transfer tax. His cherished civilian-controlled board to review complaints against the police was ignominiously defeated 2 to 1 at the polls...
Whitlock listed several steps to prevent another disturbance that would stop short of a flat refusal to permit the game. He mentioned additional police protection, busing students to and from the game," and channeling part of the crowd into the subway through the MBTA yards on Mem Drive, so that they would not have to enter the Square to catch the train. Whitlock also suggested that a different date for the game might reduce the size of the crowd...
...typhoon next week," and it goes on to say, "Typhoons hardly ever happen north of Pago Pago, but the way your luck has been running it wouldn't surprise us if it happened to youknowwho. First your water dries up. Your lights conk out. No newspapers, no subways. So why not a tropical storm? Or maybe your sewer system will back up and you'll be riding to work on alligators. We don't have any black outs or water shortages or subway strikes. Matter of fact, our commuter trains are seldom even late...
...seaport complex that had been idled by strikes for a total of 85 days the year before. For a start, he raised some $40 million by a tax on autos, collected delinquent income taxes by allowing payments on the installment plan. He boosted prices on fuel, electricity and subway fares-to increase the profits of state enterprises. To discourage costly labor disputes, he issued a decree calling for compulsory arbitration...
Much still remains to be done. The New York City subway system, in which 800,000 passengers were stranded last fall, has yet to set up its own emergency power system or even a lighting plant. On the basis of the lessons learned from the blackout, both the Federal Power Commission and the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation strongly endorsed a bill in Congress this year that would have given the FPC greater control over power-grid planning. The measure died, largely be cause the utilities lobby opposed it. And though - until 1965 - utility companies had for years...