Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 600 trolley and bus-line operators went to Chicago for an emergency conference of the American Transit Association last week. The emergency: too much business. How much too much, they heard from beetle-browed, mustachioed A.T.A. Managing Director Charles Gordon, who gave them some horrendous estimates for the next two years...
...Local transit facilities will have to carry a record 17 billion passengers this year, three billion more than they carried last year. In 1943 they will have to carry 20 billion. These estimates take no account of crucially needed new routes to deliberately decentralized defense plants...
...reinforcements to his Afrika Korps and put him back on the offensive. By bombing Malta, the Axis had probably rendered ineffective any R.A.F. bombing operations from the island. As a result, Axis shipping has an even chance of getting to Tripoli and Tunis unbombed, either at base or in transit...
...great help was a remarkable new foreign-body detector which Dr. Moorhead had with him. It was invented by Samuel Berman, a research engineer in the New York City Transit Department. The cigar-sized instrument works on the principle of a radio tube; when held over a wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time...
...orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total war backlog to nearly $2 billions. President Charles E. Wilson said G.M. could & would handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry 20 billion. > The Northwest's third largest industry after lumber and fishing is tourists. Foreseeing a poor year, Oregon last week canceled its $100,000 tourist advertising budget, and the unexpended balance of Washington's quarter-million appropriation...