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September 26, 1927

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UNTERMYER GIVES HIS PLAN FOR UNIFIED TRANSIT LINES AND NON-POLITICAL CONTROL; PUTS COST AT $196,600,000 Wants B.M.T. Subways and East Side I.R.T. Lines Recaptured. STILL HOPES TO BUY LATTER But Urges Both Be Notified at Once of Intention to Take Them Over. PLANS TO KEEP 5-CENT FARE Wants Board to Operate Lines With Three Political and Six Civilian Members. Outline of the Untermyer Program to Unify the Subways Into a New System

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Robert Cade

1927Robert Cade, American physician and educator, co-invented Gatorade (died 2007)[†]

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Enzo Bearzot

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