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Word: subways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: All Hands Saved | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bawdy Boston | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...SUBWAY EXPRESS?Murder in the rush hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Eight feminist ticket sellers in New York's subway sacrificed six days' pay to attend the convention, to plead for industrial equality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Sister-In-Law | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...SUBWAY EXPRESS-Murder in the rush hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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