Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief ingredients of the latest advance were food, up .4%, transportation, up 1.2% because of New York City's 50 subway-fare increase plus higher prices for used cars, gasoline, tires, auto repairs and insurance. Prices also jumped for a broad range of other products-from cigarettes to furniture, textiles, paper napkins and detergents. Over the past twelve months, the cost of consumer services, from baby sitters to manicurists, has risen 4.1%. The cost of homeownership is up 4.5%, dairy products 6.4%, shoes 7%, picnic meats 12%, cucumbers...
...have been reading Tolkien since I was ten, at a time when, as you say, it "languished largely unread." At that time, Tolkien came as a blessed and delightful discovery, unsullied by elvish slogans on subway walls, FRODO LIVES buttons, or campus societies. But now, everywhere one turns, gushing over-enthusiasts are to be found turning Tolkien into a common cult, with no recognition for the most ardent readers of all who, instead of joining the society, are keeping quiet. As for you, TIME, may the hair on your feet become mangy and fall out. You have done your...
...machinist's union represents 34,4000 mechanics and related ground service employees at Eastern, National, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines; the corresponding workers at American and Pan Am are represented by the Transport Workers Union, the same union that crippled New York City with a subway strike in January...
...ceremony will take place in Washington's huge Roman Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, but invitations were limited by the President's wish that all their guests be invited both to the church and to the reception, and the White House resembles a rush-hour subway when more than 1,000 people invade...
...total to $385.5 million. Though the sum was far short of his goal, Lindsay scored a moral victory by winning a graduated income tax of up to 2% for city residents and a token "earnings tax" of from one-fourth to three-eighths of 1% on commuters.* The subway fare will almost certainly have to be increased...