Word: subway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Authority investigators, Ernest Moss, 39, and Maurice Bernstein, 36, also refused to waive immunity when called before the grand jury. Both were later indicted on charges that they tried to extort $1,000 from the owner of a West Side bar. Two weeks ago, Moss threw himself under a subway train and killed himself...
Because of labor stoppages, there were no newspapers to speak of in New York or Cleveland last week, no shipping of consequence on the Atlantic or Gulf coasts. In Philadelphia, a bus, trolley and subway strike was making life miserable for commuters, and only a federal court order prevented Southern Railway workers from hitting the bricks. In all, federal mediators were wrestling with more than 20 major strikes last week...
...other commuter roads in the Boston area-the New Haven and the New York Central-may join the experiment later. Part of the grant money will also be used to reduce parking fees at outlying bus and subway stations to encourage commuters to use public transportation for the last stage of their daily journey into the car-clogged heart of Boston. From these points, Boston-area bus fares will be reduced, and bus schedules will be coordinated with train schedules to cut down waiting time...
...their children into tights and sending them off, red, blue-and green-legged, into the winter days. Suburbanites took to wearing tights to the shopping center, bowling alley or even out to dinner. Manhattan secretaries, used to arriving at the office frozen from the blizzard that began at the subway exit, threw caution into the Out basket and showed up for work in tights. Grandes dames, off through the snow to the party of the year, wore tights beneath their full-length ballgowns...
Separate Pleas. By any measure, the strike's burden seemed larger than any of the principals, or even the innocent bystanders, could long accept. "We Miss You Too," said the World-Telegram, in a despondent ad posted all over New York's subway system. Broadway languished, as thousands of would-be theatergoers passed up a play or a movie because they had no simple way of discovering what was on. Christmas crowds still teemed through the city, their bullish mood hardly dampened for lack of those invaluable stimulants, the display ads. New York City's department stores...