Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a short-circuited subway train under the East River, 800 passengers stampeded, trampling 89 of themselves but killing none...
Corruption. When he was Governor of Massachusetts (1925-29), Alvan Tufts Fuller charged that Boston's Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols delayed subway construction to let his friends buy up the right-of-way, then sell it to the city at exorbitant prices. He named specific instances, said: "The people of Boston are being systematically robbed by a group of ... politicians." He once referred to the Mayor as "in his usual irresponsible condition...
...SUBWAY EXPRESS?Murder in the rush hour...
...Eight feminist ticket sellers in New York's subway sacrificed six days' pay to attend the convention, to plead for industrial equality...
...SUBWAY EXPRESS-Murder in the rush hour...