Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison gas, saw the advantages of speedy construction...
Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...
...thrifty Boston housewife, eyeing some Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price. Forward-looking Brother Edward also secured for Filene's site a strategic corner where Boston's rapid transit trunk lines (Washington Street subway and Dorchester-Cambridge subway) meet. Generous, impulsive, Brother Edward Albert Filene stored up much Filene goodwill through his habit of giving away merchandise, particularly to children...
...Boston, one Willard Mouradian, 21, naval architecture student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prowled in subway stations, sneaked into trolley cars, snipped locks of hair from the heads of young girls. Last week, he was caught snipping, arrested. Why he yearned for girls' hair he did not know, he said...
...into a mansion, and in answer to her awed question as to who owns this splendid place, explains that he has bought it for her! Best shots: Leading Man James Hall buying a taxicab; Miss Banky showing him the furnished rooms she has rented as their future home; a subway...