Word: transit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pocket Veto. In Jackson, Miss., as a bill to clamp down on professional shoplifters was in transit between the House and the Senate, someone made off with...
Bobby rapidly demonstrated his gift for Rapid Transit (a form of chess that allows only ten seconds per move) and Blitz (which allows no time but the split second for actually moving a piece). But after having been beaten just once, he never entered another of the club's Rapid Transit contests. If he could not win, he would not play...
Died. John J. Dempsey, 78, Democratic Congressman from New Mexico and the state's former two-term (1943-47) governor; of complications following a virus infection; in Washington. Once a vice president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Jack Dempsey moved west, served New Mexico in the U.S. Congress from 1935 to 1941, again since 1951, last month pushed through an amendment that calls for the immediate beginning of construction on one of his pet projects: the $37 million Navajo Dam in the Upper Colorado Basin...
...Francisco's KPIX pioneered a campaign for a rapid-transit system in the bay area, plugged it with helicopter shots of traffic jams, views of a comfortable, studio-built commuter-train interior, even bought radio time to catch the ear of harassed motorists...
...Governor S. (for Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate investigating committee complained that Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin (Bainbridge's mayor and Marv's paid state assistant) and six other Griffin administration officials, the governor is a stockholder in Caribe Transport Line, Inc., a company that will this spring take advantage of the facilities...