Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police knew was that the murderer had appeared to be a young Puerto Rican. They had no other clues to the man who stabbed Arthur Collins in the New York subway last October and sprinted away. Even so, a reporter from Manhattan's Spanish-language newspaper El Diario soon picked up the suspect's trail. Following a telephone tip, Esli Gonzalez, 34, went from bar to bar in The Bronx. Finally he found the fugitive, but the man got away again. Next night, Gonzalez tracked the man down for the second time and persuaded him to give himself...
...Whereupon the tiny man, exploding chords like cannoncrackers, hurled himself upon the piano, and for the next 72 minutes, while the orchestra bawled like a herd of lovesick hippos, blasted away with a display of percussive pianistics that rattled the hall so hard nobody noticed the sound of a subway train thundering within 40 feet of the stage...
With pick and shovel, the boy from Gourtloughera helped dig the city's last big subway tunnel. When he worked in a subway change booth-an 84-hour week for a $27.72 pay envelope-the need for a union was obvious. With six others, he started the T.W.U. in 1934 and became its first president. "We were dealing with a lot of young Irishmen who came over from secret organizations," he said. "They liked the secrecy and the intrigue. I liked it too. It never left...
...still cosmolined .50-cal. machine guns rigged with antiaircraft sights, and even Western pinup pictures. So extensive was the haul that Saigon suspected it might have captured the Viet Cong headquarters of the whole capital region. Moreover, some of the tunnels stretched away toward the Cambodian border, conceivably could subway whole regiments toward Saigon...
Second, it is far from clear that the settlement was "inflationary" in the national context (presumably the President would not bother about it in any other context). The subway system is certainly not a key industry in the sense that steel or aluminum is. And the underlying assumption of the wage-price guideline is that excessive wage or price increases in key industries have an inflationary impact on the American economy. How great, really, is the danger that an "excessive" transit settlement in New York will transmit inflation to the economy as a whole...