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Retiring Ralph Budd was much too full of beans to settle down yet. When he leaves the "Q," he will move into the chairmanship of the Chicago Transit Board at $35,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Hand on the Throttle | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Last week the Nassau County (N.Y.) Transit Commission, an unsalaried board of seven prominent citizens appointed by the Republican New York State Legislature, said indignantly that the commuters were right. The Pennsy, the commission found, had milked the Long Island of upwards of $2,000,000 a year in intracompany deals. Some of the deals : ¶The Long Island, using its own tugs and barges, hauls Pennsylvania's freight across New York Harbor to Greenville, N.J., earning the Pennsy $1.10 in terminal credits for every ton of freight. For doing the work, the Long Island gets only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Who Starved the Long Island? | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...strikes. Last week the commandants of the three Western powers pitched in to help the Russians get an agreement. The strikers are demanding all of their pay in West marks because most of them live and work in the Western sectors. The Russians, who control the entire city rail transit system, have offered 60% of the workers' pay in West marks. Last week Ernst Reuter, Socialist Mayor of (West) Berlin, appeared at a strike meeting and offered to add 15% from city funds to the Russian offer. He told the strikers that the U.S., British and French commandants wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: We Know the Russians | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Whether weather stays hot or cold, bathers had better keep, covered while in transit to the beaches, the MDC told the Boston press Sunday. In a ruling full of technicalities and escape clauses, the MDC ordered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Suit for $60,000 against the Metropolitan Transit Authority was filed yesterday in Federal Court on behalf of Clarence M. Holloway 2L, almost blinded law student, by his attorney, John Saltonstall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blind Law School Man Sues MTA | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

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