Electric traction was first used in Buenos Aires in 1897, since when nearly all the lines of that city have been reconstructed to meet its requirements, and subways are contemplated to relieve the congested street traffic of the central districts; the companies contribute 6% of their gross receipts to the municipality, besides paying $50 per annum per square on each single track in paved streets, 5 per thousand on the value of their property, and 33% of the cost of street repaving and renewals. [Please select]
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We travel today in steel subways, transact our business in steel buildings, and live in apartments and private houses which are made largely of steel. [Please select]
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In New York the subways are owned by the city but leased for operation. [Please select]
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Indeed his subterranean network of tunnels excels in complexity our modern city subways. [Please select]
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It was singing that dug the subways under the streets in New York. [Please select]
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--METHODS AND COST OF LINING TUNNELS AND SUBWAYS 328 Introduction--Capitol Hill Tunnel, Pennsylvania R. [Please select]
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He accepted as homage to them both the sympathetic glances of the public in the street cars and subways. [Please select]
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He has had the spirit of removing oceans and of building huge, underground cities, the spirit of caves in the ground and mansions in the sky, and now he has subways and skyscrapers. [Please select]
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So snug, cosy and hidden are the tiny quarters to which his runs or subways lead that his family is quite safe against most enemies. [Please select]
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