Word: transition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Transportation Committee were uncertain last night about the chances of the measure passing the full House of Representatives. The bill, if passed, would decrease transit revenues, and some felt that it would be unfair to give college commuters a reduction at the expense of the rest of the population...
Trio, three more W. Somerset Maugham short stories, is keeping the Sutton in business, at 57th and Second. Another English feature is the witty Last Holiday, starring Alec Guinness, "the best actor of 1950." The Interborough Rapid Transit stops a stone's throw from the Ascot at 183rd and Grand Concourse in the Bronx...
...into service in Chicago last week looked like any other buseson the outside. But their mechanical innards were different. Instead of running on gasoline, they ran on propane gas, a petroleum distillate. They were the first of a new fleet of 500 ordered by Chicago's Transit Authority from Twin Coach Co. of Kent, Ohio. The fleet, largest of its kind in the U.S., marked the fast progress of the propane-propelled revolution in engine fuels...
Truckers and other bus companies have used propane on & off for more than 15 years, but only recently has propane begun to eat into the gasoline market in a sizable way. About 20 cities, including San Antonio, Orlando, Fla. and Winnipeg, Canada, have recently added propane buses to their transit systems. Three months ago Milwaukee's Boynton Cab Co. began converting its 279-cab fleet to propane, the first cab company to do so. With its new fleet Chicago hopes to save up to 2? a mile in operating expenses...
These who subscribe to any form of Crime will be disappointed tomorrow, for there will be no Crime. Sic Transit Gloria Friday...