Word: transit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ridge National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission had a peculiar problem with its library. Scattered widely around the great reservation are many individual laboratories, and the scientists could not use the central library without great waste of time in transit. Worse yet, some of Oak Ridge's laboratories are "hot" (radioactive), and borrowed papers which might pick up radioactivity in a hot lab could not be returned to the library...
Also small trees will be placed on over Massachusetts Transit Authority pole, and the the decorations will be lit from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Large trees set up by the city in Brattle, Harvard, and Quincy Squares and in front of the Harvard Square information booth will complete the display...
...Nassau County Transit Commission charged that the Pennsylvania Railroad had milked the Long Island financially for years before allowing it to go into bankruptcy. It was primarily a passenger road with only a minor percentage of the freight business which swelled the coffers of other rail lines. Its equipment was junky and the morale of its 7,500 employees was as low as that of its passengers...
...most remarkable deal of all involved 4,000,000 Ibs. of copper which went to Red China before the Korean war. It was bought in Japan for shipment to New York. Because of the New York destination, a Japanese export license was easily obtained. In transit, the copper was resold to agents of Red China. Since the shipment originated in Japan, the copper was exempt from U.S. export controls when it passed through New York. Said Jerome Kohlberg,* president of the Kane Import Corp. which bought & sold part of the copper: "We acted in accordance with all Government regulations...
...Brody, a retired bachelor transit worker, began three years ago to feed and care for "Timothy," a tan neighborhood stray. Timothy developed home-loving traits, and would curl up comfortably at Mr. Brody's feet on cold autumn night, purring happily. Mr. Brody could not imagine why Timothy vanished two weeks...