Word: transition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transit of Venus. It is the story of the first and greatest of Cook's tours which John Gwyther, a wartime Royal Navy officer, tells in Captain Cook and the South Pacific. A three-year circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71), Cook's voyage added Australia, New Zealand and a number of South Pacific isles to the then known world. Narrated by Author Gwyther with seadog relish, authority and profound professional admiration, Cook's epic journeyings have the fascination of an Odyssey from Yorkshire...
...campaign up the St. Lawrence against Quebec. Cook was 40 when he was chosen to skipper the Endeavour. By London's top scientists, the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Admiralty, he was handed a twofold mission: 1) he was to sail to Tahiti and observe the transit of Venus "over the disk of the sun"; 2) he was to search out "Terra Australis Incognita," a vast body of land presumed to extend westward from the tip of South America because it was theoretically necessary to counteract the weight of the Northern Hemisphere and so keep the world...
Louis Wolfson, who normally loves the spotlight, was busy dodging it. He ducked a senatorial subpoena ordering him to testify in the strike of the Wolfson-controlled Capital Transit Co., which has forced thousands of Washingtonians to hitch rides or walk to work during the past two weeks. Despite the inconvenience, Washingtonians seemed almost solidly against Employer Wolfson and in favor of his employees, striking for a 25?-an-hour pay hike and other benefits. Crying that Wolfson was an "economic carpetbagger," Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse introduced a bill to strip Capital Transit of its franchise...
Even Capital Transit agreed that its employees deserved a pay increase, but President J.A.B. Broadwater asked: "Where will the money come from?" Most Washingtonians had no answer for this; they did, however, know where Capital Transit's money had gone. In 1949, when the North American Co. had to sell off Capital Transit under the death-sentence clause of the Public Utility Holding Companies Act. Louis Wolfson and friends bought control (46.5% of the shares) for $2,189,160. Capital Transit was a conservative old company, with a fund of more than $6,000,000 set aside...
...strike, Capital Transit blamed the District of Columbia Public Utilities Commission, which had refused the company permission for its fourth fare rise since Wolfson took over...