Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends remained close through the years. One day Grant spied Prime Minister MacDonald in a London subway, took him to task for wasting his energy unnecessarily, told him he should use a motor. When MacDonald, who had no private income, explained that he could not afford the upkeep of a car, Grant gave him one and endowed it with 30,000 preferred shares of McVitie & Price at ?1 each. Three months later Prime Minister MacDonald successfully advised King George V to confer a baronetcy on Grant. In the House of Commons, His Majesty's Loyal Opposition rose savagely...
...hour day, slower schedules. The capital, without its 5,000 chugging, swaying, double-decker busses, which carry 5,000,000 passengers a day, looked strange, and only taxi-drivers, who did a roaring business, rejoiced in their absence. Two other labor clouds loomed ominously: first, many subway and streetcar workers were eager to stage a sympathetic walkout; second, miners all over the country threatened to strike a week after the Coronation, unless Harworth (Nottinghamshire) colliery owners dropped their company unions, recognized the national Mineworkers' Federation...
...private life. Commissioner Moss's business was show business. He and his brother, Benjamin S. Moss, were pioneer chain cinemansion operators, he coproduced a hit called Subway Express and for a long time was a prominent Theatre Guildsman. It was only natural that Commissioner Moss should concentrate his reform zeal on Broadway. He requisitioned dress rehearsal seats to all productions so that if a show was dirty it could be cleaned up without the furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested...
...pound race will be over the Henley Course (one mile and five-six-teenths), finishing near the Cambridge bank between the Tech Sailing Pavilion and the subway bridge. Best place to watch this race: follow in car along Cambridge shore, or standing on bank near finish...
...other three races will be over the one and three-quarter mile course, finishing in the corner of the Basin just west of the Boston end of the Subway bridge (right off the Union Boat Club). Best place to watch the race: standing on the Subway bridge near the Charles Street Station. It is practically impossible to follow this course in an automobile...