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This brought under city ownership the longest underground transit system in the world-130 miles of subway routes (London. 75 miles; Paris, 70). Together with an additional 120 miles of elevated lines, it carried 2.255,000,000 passengers during the last fiscal year, more than were carried by any other railroad. But the below-cost 5? fare-politically inexpedient to change -has piled deficit upon deficit on New York's subways. Not until 1982 will the last of the present transit debt be paid off. Fortnight ago, an apprehensive Citizens Budget Commission put the total ultimate cost...
...show leadership qualities will get a crack at commanding, may attain the status of "cadet" or "temporary sergeant," wear not chevrons but an identifying arm band. Says the War Department: "The arm band will slip off and on with remarkable ease." Those on whom the arm band stays longest may after nine months be admitted to Officers' Training School, may one day substitute securely pinned shoulder bars for slippery bands...
Many Manhattan critics, fixing on the intermittent "problem-play" tone of the drama, wrote of it with patronizing witticisms. An exception was the Post's sensitive, scholarly John Mason Brown, who gave Fledgling one of the longest play reviews of the season, said: "It treats playgoers as grownups and the theatre as an adult institution...
...every $1 by which these companies increase their profits over 1939, 72? will go for taxes. Not so the railroads. With enormous structures of "invested capital," on which the return for most is nowhere near the law's minimum 8%, they offered their common stockholders one of the longest rides in the park. Signs, good...
Though only ten years old, lightweight football already has its Immortals: Yale's Doug Northrop, who punted 84½ yards during the 1934 game with Penn (longest punt on record until Al Braga of the University of San Francisco punted 89 yards in a varsity game three years ago); Rutgers' Pomp Chandler, twinkle-toed Negro who led the little Scarlet through three undefeated seasons; Yale's Dave Boies, who in 1936, before a crowd of 12,000, kicked a last-minute field goal that handed Rutgers its first defeat in four years; Princeton's Buster Bedford...