Word: subways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diseases, there is only one effective protection-vaccination. New York Health Commissioner Israel Weinstein promptly warned New Yorkers who had not been vaccinated within five years to get vaccinated. He also set to work to protect all the city's employees, rounded up for vaccination firemen, subway workers, social workers, policemen, hospital staff members, 1,000 guests in the city's flophouse. Some 2,500 patients who had been discharged from a city hospital during LeBar's stay there were called back for vaccination. Thousands of New Yorkers queued up at vaccination centers. At week...
...After 16 years of grinding through Bronx traffic, Busdriver William Cimillo was seized with a desire to change the scene. Switching the destination sign on his employer's new $18,000 bus from "Subway" to "Special," he lit out for New Jersey, kept going for 1,350 miles to Hollywood, Fla., ended up at the race track and in need of money-for which he wired his boss. But the boss wouldn't even let him drive the bus back...
...prepares to leave him in a climactic scene (see cut) and he is dispossessed. But in a concluding soliloquy, Smith reassures the audience-he will not hang himself. His honesty unsullied, he will start life all over again, fighting for a better America. Whether or not he takes the subway straight down to Union Square is left to the audience's imagination...
Down Under. An immigrant from Russia, Subway Sam peddled papers on the tough streets of lower Manhattan, learned to use his fists so well that he has been using them ever since. (Last summer at Saratoga he flattened a Latin American who objected to his favorite song, South America, Take It Away...
Rosoff quickly branched out into building roads and canals, raising sunken ships, running bus lines, etc. He made and lost several fortunes. It was not until 1923, when he discovered Tammany Hall and the political technique of wangling subway contracts, that he really hit the jackpot...