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Word: subways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horde of mechanics charged into New York's 520 subway and elevated stations, changed the coin slots of 3,390 turnstiles and simultaneously ended an era. After 44 years of riding the subways for a nickel, New Yorkers started paying a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Doubled the subway fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...fill in: "In a single day New York uses KOMING gallons of water, imports KOMING tons of food, spews out KOMING gallons of sewage and KOMING tons of garbage. In winter it needs KOMING gallons of fuel oil. KOMING million people travel daily on its KOMING miles of subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Last week Subway Contractor Mario Luccio decided to get tough. National Fine Arts Director Guglielmo de Angelis d'Ossat begged in vain for more time. Luccio shook his head. While archeologists disconsolately stared, the work went on again full blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Gold Mine | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Boss Tweed (Vincent Price). When Rake Tweed entices Deanna down to an intimate supper, papa tags along and spoils everything. It all came right in the end; and that is why, today, we have PM, democracy, and the 10? subway fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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