Word: subways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within one hour after midnight one night last week, every bus, streetcar and subway train on Philadelphia's 1,500 miles of transit system had been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...
...Relaxing Part. At 33, Koerner is a neat, slight, cheerful-seeming man who belies the world-weariness and oppressive sense of guilt in his paintings. He lives and works alone in a studio near Brooklyn Heights, walks the city streets or rides the subway for relaxation-stopping every now & then to make a quick little pen sketch...
...Smoker Committee needed publicity and the Sportsman's and Boat Show needed publicity. The Managing Editor gave us the assignment and subway fare to Mechanics Hall. The handout, in the best public relations tradition, oozed: "Lovely Ann Curtis, the Olympic swim star, currently appearing at the etc, etc, faces a seathing denunciation at the hands of those vocal undergrads of Harvard if she doesn't accept their bid to the Freshman Smoker. The difficulty began when Ann and her famous Olympic partner, Adolph Kiefer, agreed to perform at the Yale..."You get the angle...
...vacation in Belgium. His notations are casual and apparently aimless: he notes the appearance of a handsome Jewess on the ship, the drab, suburban-New Jersey-type architecture of parts of Florida. He comments on book reviewers and publishers, Mrs. Roosevelt, Anthony Adverse, Shakespeare and the prose of subway advertisements. Someone told him that certain South Sea Islanders permitted an unmarried girl to bring a boy home for the night "as freely as an American girl could bring one home for lunch, and a different one each night, if she liked." Nock thought it rather a good idea...
...writers (there are several) must have felt that another musical with a New York theme was about due, a month or so having lapsed since the last one. Consequently there are a couple of songs in which the chorus shouts loud hosannas for such things as Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this...