Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responded more than enthusiastically to Sullivan's program, providing both money and machinery for instruction. Sperry Rand contributed a $350,000 Univac computer. Smith Kline & French outfitted a laboratory for the instruction of chemical-lab technicians. The Budd Co., one of the nation's biggest makers of subway cars, gave equipment for training sheet-metal workers, then hired 200 of the graduates...
...passengers a day, the New York City subway system offers the world's longest ride. Last week, to make that ride pleasanter, the Transit Authority issued a list of 39 new, delicately detailed rules regulating the behavior of passengers both on trains and in stations, and for good measure, on buses as well...
...judge from some of the rules, the city's subway riders are not only surly but strange. Among the prohibited activities: riding on the roof, waving a flag, making a speech, bringing aboard dirty clothing or bedding (subways are not for sleeping). Also forbidden: holding a meeting, singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument, and changing into a bathing suit in a station rest room. The rules may be ticklers but they are no joke: violators face $25 fines and ten days in jail...
...also studying whether to take their head offices out of Manhattan. As for their reasons, Yaseen called the labor market "unfavorable," labor leaders "unsympathetic," and "complaints regarding clerical workers universal." On top of that, said Yaseen, businessmen grumble about "commuting, the rising crime rate, swollen welfare rolls and the subway strike. New York is not a happy place...
...opening round of the Beanpot hockey tournament was postponed for the second time last night because of the Boston Blizzard. Originally scheduled for February 6, the subway series was derailed a day to accommodate the Ali-Terrell bout and now two more days. Harvard will face Boston University and Northeastern will oppose Boston College Thursday evening at the Boston Garden...