Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harbour, operations chief of London Transport: "We can't stand for chaos any longer. A few people refusing to leave a train can delay thousands." Detrainment, as he called the ejection of passengers, could not be avoided.* All this was shocking news to Londoners, long proud of the Underground's superiority to the New York subway and Paris Metro...
...week's end, the officials of the London Transport had completely surrendered. It promised that Underground passengers will no longer be ordered about "like a lot of bloomin' cattle," and agreed "whenever possible" to tell travelers via public address systems at all main stations the reason why they are being asked to leave a train...
After the Greek Cypriot underground EOKA offered on Christmas Eve to change its terroristic course on Cyprus if the British would "do the same," Britain's tough Major General Kenneth Darling announced, "We will continue to hunt down lawbreakers...
...Underground. The new hope nourished a deadly and dedicated underground in and out of Cuba, devoted to terror, arms smuggling, espionage, fund raising. The rebels planted bombs in Havana, sometimes 100 in a night, in gambling joints, movie houses. The police and Batista's dreaded Military Intelligence Service counter-terrorized Cuba by killing suspected underground members, leaving their bodies on busy sidewalks to be seen by stenographers going to work. In reprisal a Santiago mother placed a wreath at night on the exact spot where her son was slain. An arrogant cop kicked the flowers away next morning...
...arms, the rebels had money to spare. Collections in the U.S. came to $25,000 a month. Rich Havana sympathizers donated as much as $50,000 each, and the dues from the Havana underground yielded another $25,000 monthly. Contributions and nonredeemable "bond issues" in Venezuela raised $200.000. Companies operating in eastern Cuba began paying "taxes" to the rebels. As a hedge against the future. Sugar Baron Julio Lobo, one of Cuba's richest men, kicked...