Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's greatest city became a slow-motion mockery of itself. For the first time in history, the huge city was with out any mass public transportation, which had been shut down by a strike of its 36,000-member Transport Workers Union. The 134 miles of subway tubes, normally jammed daily with 4.6 million passengers, stretched silent and empty beneath the city; the 2,200 buses that daily haul one and a half million people over 554 miles of New York streets sat in bumper-to-bumper immobility in vast parking lots around town...
...Union and a raving Anglophobe who fought in the Irish Revolutionary Army. He had a meager childhood on a County Kerry farm, immigrated to the U.S. in 1926, sold religious pictures in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, later became a ditchdigger and a change maker in the New York subway system. Quill was a loyal Communist-liner when he founded the T.W.U. in 1934, once said, "I'd rather be called a Red by a rat than...
Both Lindsay and the Transit Authority agreed that New York's subway and bus workers needed a raise to bring them more nearly into line with city workers of equivalent talent and status, but nothing on the order of what Mike Quill asked for. Top wage for T.W.U. members working for the Transit Authority is $3.57 an hour, for work that includes everything from driving the underground trains (a job that requires 280 hours of schooling) to repairing buses. Even though New York's T.W.U. men lead their union in nationwide pay, they lag behind many municipal workers...
...polygonal structure within which students will go from floor to floor in spiral fashion as well as by vertical stairways. Even the more massive structures that rim the campus are open to the city around them. "We use the buildings as gateways," Netsch explains. As urban as the new subway station built to disgorge students right onto one of its walkways, the new Chicago Circle campus is a growing monument that acquires its expansive scale naturally from its monumental task-the education of new generations in the heart of urban society...
...York bus and subway strike enters its seventh day, people are asking why there was a walkout this year and never before. Labor and economics experts at Harvard and M.I.T. generally agreed that the answer can be found in the new faces and the circumstances that surrounded the negotiations...