Word: transit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the blockhouse an Air Force officer peered through a scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...
City councilors will discuss the traffic problem in the Harvard area with representatives of the Metropolitan Transit Authority at an open, pre-election meeting next Monday...
...outset, President Eisenhower characteristically asked everyone to speak frankly and freely. They did. The discussion ranged over the timing of school desegregation not only in Arkansas but throughout the South. Faubus explained at length the integration progress already made in Arkansas, at the state university in Fayetteville, in public transit systems, etc. Finally the governor made a significant request: that Little Rock integration be delayed (a mere year's postponement would get Faubus past next July's Democratic primary, when he hopes to win renomination for a third term...
...change Ohio legislation that ties the hands of mayors and police chiefs against "entrenched practices" among the police. Gordon, whose previous reporting was limited to real estate, basked in his sudden celebrity. A sumptuous brunette, he said, recognized him from his pictures as he rode home on a rapid-transit car, and, leaning over, her mouth close to his ear, whispered: "Hello, Badge...
Poor by Western standards, Syria is moderately prosperous as Middle Eastern nations go. Though she has no oilfields of her own, nearly a seventh of her national budget last year came from transit fees paid by Tapline and Iraq Petroleum Co. pipelines across it. (Because the Syrian army sabotaged the I.P.C. pipeline at the time of the Suez invasion, oil is flowing through it at only 40% of its pre-Suez rate.) For all her chronic political chaos, Syria has made notable economic progress since World War II. Irrigation schemes, mostly private, have more than doubled wheat production since...