Word: transition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan Island's flinty length is skewered by two sets of tubes, its flat back mounted by three great overhead structures. The tubes all duck under the East River, bore deep into Brooklyn. One is run by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. The other, a two-pronged affair stretching to The Bronx, is controlled by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. which also operates the elevated lines. New York City owns the tunnels and tracks, rents them under long-term leases to the operating companies...
Died. Richard Floyd Clinch, 65, president of Crerar Clinch Coal Co. and of the Chicago Auditorium Association, vice president of Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. Co. and of Chicago Rapid Transit Co.; of heart disease; in Chicago...
...Hopeful as were these predictions of better times by U. S. tycoonery they did not help President Hoover solve the immediate problem of Unemployment. The President's estimates showed 3,500,000 persons out of work. Of these it was figured that a million were in transit from one job to another or voluntarily idle and that another 500,000 were in communities of less than 3,000 population where they would be cared for by friends or relatives. The remaining 2,000,000 jobless represented about 800,000 families. The President's view was that this...
Died. Frank Richards Ford, 59, Manhattan engineer, member of the famed engineering firm Ford, Bacon & Davis, a director of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., consulting engineer and director of six other companies, planner of the Philadelphia rapid transit system and the unification of electric street railways in Chicago; after an operation, at the Medical
...This includes stocks of blister copper, refined copper and copper in transit...