Word: transition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bemusing News. Officially, the Cook expedition which left England in 1768 was purely scientific; the party had been sent into the Pacific to observe the transit of the planet Venus, thus collect data to help astronomers calculate the distance between the earth and the sun. But in fact, the Endeavour's cruise was a matter of empire. The French had just lost Canada and, with an urge to make up for it somehow, were searching for the great new continent that was still believed to lie in the South Pacific between New Zealand and South America. If there...
...financial troubles of the Metropolitan Transit Authority really started some three hundred years ago when the founders of Boston began driving their cows along the muddy banks of the Charles. These troubles have mounted to an $18,000,000 deficit during the past four years...
...banks didn't have any rock base on which to construct high buildings. While stony Manhatten Island packs over 85,000 people to the square mile with more being squeezed in every day, Boston manages only 18,000 and the figure is not going up. Inexpensive operation of a transit system in decentralized Boston is impossible. MTA authorities chose the fairest way out of their deficit problem when they hiked the fare from ten to fifteen cents...
...Long Island Rail Road was bought in 1900 by the Pennsylvania. After 1935, with the exception of three war years, the Long Island lost money, and in March 1949 the Pennsylvania declared it bankrupt and said it was on its own. A few months later, the Nassau County Transit Commission charged that the Pennsylvania had systematically milked its subsidiary. It charged that: for the L.I.'s tugs and barges to move freight across New York Harbor, the Pennsy paid the L.I. only 35? a ton, collected as much as $1.10 from shippers; the Pennsy...
...have always felt that the operation of a transit system is a legitimate function of municipal government. Therefore, it is a poor idea to overload the MTA riders with what seems to us to be outrageously high fares in terms of the services offered. We think that the mere existence of the MTA greatly enhances the value of the real estate in the Boston area. It is more fitting that the burden of metropolitan transit deficits should fall on the landowners of the individual municipalities which encompass the system. They are the most able to pay, and also gain considerably...