Word: transition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major factor in the current demand for engineers. Georgia Tech's placement bureau, which will be sold out of 1956 graduates by May, is already taking orders for the class of 1957. The demand has led to a story of the civil engineer who, tired of using a transit for the state highway department, went to work for a major oil company. Three months later he was back asking for his old job. The new job had been fine, he said, "but I couldn't stand having those talent scouts from the aircraft industry and the chemical plants...
...city's first elevavated structure, the Forest Hills lines, was completed. Eight years later, the Cambridge-Boston tube replaced the hourse cars on Massachusetts Avenue, and much of the transit equipment has been in constant use since that time...
Adenauer warned that the federal government would consider any nation's recognition of the "socalled" East German Republic "an unfriendly act," and he urged his three Western allies to take steps against the violation of Allied transit rights under the agreement which ended the Berlin blockade...
...machinery, which are most susceptible to water damage. Insurers believe that they can economically cover only property which can be moved out of the flood's path. Thus, in the Northeast, the companies' heaviest payments will be for wrecked or damaged cars, boats, and goods in transit. The small percentage of homeowners who had all-risk personal-property floaters also can collect for damage to belongings...
LOUIS WOLFSON'S strikebound Capital Transit Co. will be put out of business. President Eisenhower signed into law a bill passed by Congress revoking Capital Transit's franchise to operate in the District of Columbia, and giving the company a year to wind up its affairs. In the meantime, the District Commissioners will negotiate a new wage settlement with striking workers, foot the bill for any loss that Capital Transit might incur during the year because of a pay raise...