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...original telescope and its housing ranged from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to the Revere Copper Company. The lenses for the first telescope then called the Great Refractor, came from Munich in 1846 and 1847 and by June, 1847, the telescope was in use. A transit circle then came from London and the first $100,000 endowment--was received from the Phillips Fund shortly afterwards...
...winning club argued the negative of last night's issue of whether a transit company may have broadcasts with commercials in its buses and streetcars...
...month earlier, Philadelphia and New York City were engrossed in the capture of Willie Sutton, while Seattle was deep in a controversy over fluoridation of its water supply. San Franciscans talked of little but the wildcat transit strike and the resulting traffic snarls, but a little farther south, in Los Angeles, Topic A was Governor Warren's entry into the Wisconsin primary race. In Charleston, S.C., people were indignant about judges who were resigning in order to be renamed to their posts at higher pay, while Indianapolis was swept up in the Hoosier State's annual excitement over...
...first round, that starts at 8 p.m. tonight, the Cardozo Club will compete against the Kaplan Club. Tonight's case concerns "captive audiences." The issue involved is whether a transit company may have broadcasts with commercials in its buses and streetcars. The argument will center on constitutional and administrative law issues...
...With $4,000,000 (including $3,000,000 held against bonded debt) of the old surplus still intact in the kitty, Broadwater is already talking of paying out another special dividend, and raising the dividend rate on the new stock to $1.50 a year. Moneymaking Capital Transit could do this handily if the regulating commission would allow it to get a 7½% return on investment instead of the present 6¾%. Last week Broadwater challenged the commission to grant such a rise or let the city buy the company. Says he: "If they won't let us make...