Word: fares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not be going to see Flynn but to rest in another friend's neighboring office. He promised to reduce the budget "by instituting real economies," abolish duplicating departments in the city government by having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would not have served on the [Fusion] ticket because I would have had to accept the support and laid myself under obligation to Boss Koenig, whom the decent Republicans have just driven from power [TIME, Oct. 2]. ... I could...
John Patrick O'Brien's speech sonorously accepting Tammany's renomination was loyally cheered by several hundred city employes but, since no newspaper was interested in him, it made scant news. Accurately he observed: "Everyone knows that the 5? fare does not permit a sufficient return on the city's enormous rapid transit investment. But the people have chosen to pay the interest on this investment in another form; that is, by taxation." The earnest, bumbling Mayor took credit for having dismissed 8,000 city employes, for saving $15,000,000, even for Samuel Untermyer...
...railroads sell-passenger transporta-tion-began to fall after the War and they kept right on falling until last year when they were 70% off from 1920. Untrained as merchants, railroadmen believed that the traffic they had lost to the automobile, airplane and bus was lost for good & all; fare-cutting would merely reduce what little passenger revenue they still had. Early this year President Whitefoord Russell Cole of Louisville & Nashville, a big, genial, iron-haired gentleman from Kentucky who is generally the voice of the Southern carriers, tested the ancient law of price-cutting. Passenger traffic spurted upward. Soon...
...traffic is vastly more important than it is to the Western roads. Pennsylvania. New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford alone carry 70% of all U. S. railroad passengers. A committee of Eastern rail officials, headed by Central's Frederick Ely Williamson, was formed to ponder fare-cutting, and Mr. Cole's Southeastern roads agreed to await a decision from Mr. Williamson before deciding what they as a group would do. Mr. William son's committee has been meeting in Manhattan off & on for the past month, has adjourned each time without announce ment...
...wanted the people to govern themselves directly and express themselves explicitly. He wanted to see the disappearance from political life of all individual wills which were too strong, which could not yield to the desires of the masses." So he attacked Washington, vilified him to a fare-ye-well. Naturally Benny's enemies were legion. His rival journalist in Philadelphia, William Cobbett, expressed the settled opinion of the day when he called him "Printer to the French Directory, Distributor General of the principles of Insurrection, Anarchy and Confusion, the greatest of fools, and the most stubborn sans-culotte...