Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When fire gutted the important buildings of Chicago's Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. last May the old pavilion which since the Century's turn had housed the International Live Stock Exposition also went up in flames (TIME, May 28). Would the Exposition be held this December? Union Stock Yards' testy old Board Chairman Frederick Henry Prince, whose interest in animals was materially increased when he bought heavily into Armour & Co. (TIME, Dec. 25 1933). answered "by cable from Paris: EXPOSITION MUST TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder...
...North Cambridge railroad crossing, the extension of the subway will meet the extension of the Lechmere rapid transit over the roadbed of the abandoned Boston and Maine Railroad...
During the Kentucky Derby last May all of Pullman's private cars were chartered but usually about only four are in transit simultaneously about the country. If a tycoon prefers his own car, Pullman will build it for him, as it has done for 226 people and companies in the past, at a cost of $65,000 up. Henry Ford spent $200,000 on his Fair Lane. Last private car built was the Wanderer, for the late Harry Payne Whitney...
...spent some time as private secretary to the Governor of that state, and as secretary to the board of land commissioners there, returning to Boston in 1895 to spend the rest of his life there. He spent his later years as eastern representative of the A. B. C. Transit Refrigeration Company, retiring only within the last few months...
...Died? Frank Evans Seagrave, 74, astronomer who accurately predicted the reappearance of Halley's comet in 1910, the time and duration of the 1932 total solar eclipse; after an operation for intestinal cancer; in Providence. R. I. In 1882 he made important astronomical news by photographing the transit of Venus...