Word: transition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transit gloria! M. Fred Loewenstein...
...economic side of their operation and development. Their history is taken up in detail from the time when they first began to supercede horserace, about 1890, and continues to the present day, when the bus is rapidly taking the place of the trolley as a means of rapid transit. Among the numerous aspects of street railway operation which are taken up may be classed their vise, building, organization, finance, and finally their fall...
...millpond in 1814. A local atlas 50 years old contains a picture of wild geese owned by Mathew McKinstry, grandfather. The birds were handed down generation to generation. When Farmer Morrow got them six years ago there were five in the flock but one of them died in transit, another died in a barnyard accident and a third escaped...
Mitten Move. Chairman of the board of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. is oval-faced Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten. His father, Thomas Eugene Mitten, operated P. R. T. through Mitten Management, Inc. until he died by drowning in October 1929. In addition to the greater part of a $3,000,000 estate, Son Mitten was bequeathed the painful legacy of rehabilitating the company. The nature of the late Manager Mitten's operations has been questioned, and last week P. R. T. was preparing to sue for possession of his estate. Gracefully and probably shrewdly, Son Mitten turned the estate...
Wall Street's passenger traffic has shrunk according to these figures given out by Interborough Rapid Transit Co.: Fares Collected, first four months...