Word: transit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself subscribed. These strikes were undertaken or threatened to: 1) force better codes at Washington as in the cases of the silk industry at Paterson, N. J. and the boot & shoe industry at Brockton, Mass.; 2) gain union recognition as in the case of 100,000 New York City transit workers; 3) revenge NRA violations as in the case of light & power employes. Senator Wagner's National Labor Board could not settle old strikes as fast as new ones cropped up. Re-employment gains were heavily offset by men called off their regular jobs. Aware that striking Labor...
...Atterbury's $103,883 wage was shown to be worth a mere $55,700 in 1913 money. Nevertheless, President Atterbury last week was moved to wire Coordinator Eastman that he had taken a cut to $60,000 Roosevelt. Gerhard Melvin Dahl, argumentative, square-jawed chairman of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (subway), who astonished lis squalling stockholders four months ago cutting his salary from $135,000 to $90,000, last week took another...
...oranges were choice Valencias, tree-ripened to ruddy perfection. Ordinarily they would have spoiled during water transit without refrigeration. But shippers were not deliberately throwing away 7,500 cases aboard the uniced Dorothy Luckenbach: their ripe oranges were completely protected and preserved by a thin film of paraffin...
President William S. Menden of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit...
Step I was taken in 1916, when the brothers-two farm boys who went to the city and spent their savings buying empty lots-were already successful real estate operators in Cleveland. They had a suburban development called Shaker Heights which needed a rapid transit line to the heart of the city. For a rapid transit line they needed a right of way. They thought of hiring one from the nearby Nickel Plate Road. They went to the New York Central (which owned more than 50% of the stock of the Nickel Plate) and came away not only with...