Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...models seems to be laid on abundant light for the interior, and in straight cubistic line on the outside. A notable exeception to the well-lighted building is the State Prison representation, which has no windows in the cell block, the entrance resembling the approach to a subway...
Married. Rose-Zell Rowland, 20, one-time Manhattan burlesque "Golden Girl" (her costume: gilt paint); to Baron Jean Empain, 35-year-old Belgian multimillionaire, principal owner of the Paris Metro (subway); in a Budapest nursing home, three days after she had presented the baron with a son. It was reported that had the child been a daughter, there would have been no marriage...
...Lawyer Brandeis forced a Boston traction company to accept a 20-year franchise on the Boston subway which it hoped to hold for 50 years. From 1907 to 1913, as counsel for the people, he opposed the New Haven monopoly of New England transportation. As unpaid counsel for a policy holders' committee he learned enough about the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1905 to persuade the Massachusetts Legislature to make provisions for cheap insurance issued through savings banks. The Brandeis insurance plan, started in one bank, now includes 24 and more than 100 agencies in other savings banks, trust...
...President, sailed from France 29 years ago one Charles Eugene Bedaux. Although slight in stature and of no great muscle, this ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France...
...Speyer group, aged 7 to 9 and taken from grades 1A to 6B, has worked well together. The children come to school in a building on Columbia's Morningside Heights from all parts of the city, eat lunch together. Even 8-year-olds travel alone on the subway between home and school...