Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need not end their careers in hopeless frustration...
...York Times: "My article . . . was based on actual happenings which were known to many American press correspondents in Poland. There was no need to employ spies, even had I had the unwise desire to do so. ... I [instructed] members of my staff that they should avoid contact with the underground, for I did not wish to endanger the safety of persons not in sympathy with the Polish Government...
Similar rates on an eight month contract are charged by the Cambridge Garage at less accessible 128 Mt. Auburn Street, but they are completely filled, along with the Gulf Oil Station opposite the Freshman Union, the Crimson Garage opposite Kirkland House on Boylston Street, and S. H. McCartney's underground chute on Brattle Square...
...lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...
Mother Moscow's city fathers were working to get her in shape for a formal presentation to history. Streets were repaved, automobiles were ordered specially polished and passengers with overly bulky bundles barred from the elegant subway. Even the underground river Neglinka, got a new concrete conduit in place of the old wooden...