Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subway contractors in the U. S. have labor troubles, landslides and politics to contend with. Seldom if ever is their work stopped by any Ministry of Fine Arts...
...Paris Metro. Engineers and workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that it was one of the most valuable historical finds in recent years...
...weeks ago the subway workmen struck a cellar that had not been filled in. Unimaginative French laborers who crawled in to look about with smoky acetylene torches, quickly crawled back, actively sick with horror. The scientists who took their places last week were delighted...
...nonsense and get to work." Mayor Walker, in full command, has placed his own man, John Francis Curry, at the head of Tammany Hall (TIME, May 6). Only one issue has really stirred the sluggish depths of New York's electorate-the price it must pay for a subway ride. Mayor Walker won that issue when the U. S. Supreme Court rejected a 7? fare plea, upheld the nickel (TiME, April 15). He has the support of the Hearst papers (American, Evening Journal). Criticism of him as a flibberty "do-nothing" by other, more respected Manhattan journals carries small...
...Yonkers, N. Y. (where Poet John Masefield once worked in a carpet factory), lived Poet Robinson. He had been through the good schools of Maine and spent two years at Harvard. In Manhattan next, while Masefield tended a Sixth Avenue bar, Robinson checked off loads of stone delivered for subway construction. There Theodore Roosevelt discovered him, offered him a consulship in Mexico. But the poet refused to leave Manhattan, accepted instead a job at the Customs House. A slow recognition, starting with the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, culminated two years ago with lavish sales of Tristram, his third Pulitzer Prize...