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Word: yorke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Rangers 11, New York Americans...

Author: By (the UNITED Press), | Title: Hockey Scores | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

...further acquiring trolley lines and elevateds, I. R. T. soon had a monopoly on Manhattan transit. Meanwhile Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. attained a similar monopoly across the river in Brooklyn, though it had no subway then. This cozy set-up has foliated through the years until today New York's rapid transit lines are a complex tangle with only three clear-cut divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Transit Trouble | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...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 own Independent line. Sporadically, until it seemed an empty catchword, transit unification has come up in New York City politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Transit Trouble | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...prosperous Manhattan businessman and president of the New York Board of Education, Harris took suddenly to drink. Two years later, disgraced, he sailed for the Far East, became one of the most popular traders on the China Coast. He got the consular job because few wanted it, and because he was a bachelor-the Japanese wanted no foreign women in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enshrined Diplomat | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...YORK-The Roosevelt Administration and rank-and-file unionists tonight exerted new pressure upon seven American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations peace-negotiators for an early settlement of their three-year...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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