Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the on-time completion of Moscow's new subway was until last week Chief Hard-Soil Excavation Engineer Mikhail Ifremov...
...Court's sentences: ten years in jail for Moscow's Singing Subway Engineer, five years for Bookkeeper Snetkov...
Accustomed as they are to look anywhere in the world but Russia to see luxury in full bloom, most Americans will view the pictures of the new Moscow subway as evidence that, once in a while at least, the camera does lie. As if paying back a jeering capitalist world in its own coin, Mr. Stalin has constructed a subway system in his capital city, which, if the pictures are to be believed, is a cross between the Widener reading-room and the Radio City Music Hall. Although poor capitalistic New Yorkers and Bostonians ride to work in dismal, cement...
...time of his present debauch under the Moscow streets, Josef Stalin has shown the road to oblivion. It is highly possible that New Yorkers and Bostonians, seduced by the luxurious existence of their Russian cousins, will soon demand silkier face-powder, more tantalizing lipstick, or even a marble subway with messics! The world must unite to save capitalism from this degrading Communist menace...
...would be a simple matter to build some elevated crossings over the maze of intersections known as Harvard Square, with a few chutes to the subway station as finishing touches. Not only would it provide work for the unemployed, but best of all the worry-wrinkles on the foreheads of our politicians would subside when they found a new way to spend some thousands of dollars. Lest some be inclined to scoff at this proposal, the new historic example of the use of P. W. A. funds in a mid-western city is cited. With much labor and expense...