Word: unificationism
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Most striking incident in Belgium's sudden unification: Dr. Martens resigned from the Academy. He announced his resignation at one o'clock the afternoon of election day-just when the polls closed, so as not to influence the vote but in plenty of time to remove his irksome...
There are two ways out of this situation-to raise the fare from 5? or to abrogate the dual contracts. Raising the fare is politically impossible and the only way the contracts can be abrogated is for the city to take over the two private systems, merge them with its...
In 1921, crusty Republican Governor Nathan Miller put a major hurdle in the way by creating a State Transit Commission with sole unification powers. It bickered with the city and nothing resulted.
After the 1925 Legislature provided that the city must approve any unification plan devised by the Transit Commission, the Commission's Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer in 1930 offered to pay $489,000.000 for both companies. This was the highest price ever suggested, but B. M. T.'s square...
To the subway sardine the most significant feature of the deal was the promise that the city would try keeping the 5? fare, on which it thinks it can break even with unification.