Word: subway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck drivers slowed trade and industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory operators, staged a "day of action" walkout that afflicted Britons from the cradle to the grave. The public-be-damned attitude of the unions was chillingly summarized by Bill Dunn, an official...
When you build a subway tunnel, you've got to move all the dirt that's underground out of the way. The usual way to do that is through a hole--known in the trade as a haul shaft...
...free transportation on buses it has rented. The buses will run about every 20 minutes from Harvard Square and the Quad to 15 Landowne Street and back again. The buses will keep running until 2:30 a.m., so people won't be forced to leave early to catch a subway home...
...remarkable photographs in this long overdue retrospective volume. No captions are needed to display the range and depth of Evans' artistry. He knew the truth that lay in the luminous surfaces of things, whether they were the grim visages of farmers, the abstracted faces of New York subway riders, the pocked brick of a city tenement or the burnished beauty revealed in a pair of pliers and a wrench. Evans' compositions have a classical austerity, though at heart he was a great American romantic-an artist who celebrated the nobility of ordinary objects and people...
...federal government will probably approve in the next few weeks a low bid for the construction of the new Harvard Square subway station despite the fact the bid is 40 per cent above the estimate provided by a local consulting firm...