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...transit systems have received such notoriety through song as did the Metropolitan Transit System last summer. For weeks on end, disk-jockeys played the sad tale of Charlie, trapped on the MTA, never able to escape from the miles of tunnels beneath Boston streets. The MTA, however, has received a more stinging notoriety this year--it has the dubious distinction of losing the most money of any American public transit system. Last year the MTA went $16 million into the red, which was assessed upon the 14 communities served directly by the Authority. And with recent demands made...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: 'He Never Returned' | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...union has demanded an immediate 25 cents hourly wage hike, although its members presently receive $2.51 an hour plus fringe benefits, highest in the nation. The transit authorities, on the other hand, have proposed nine pages of work rule changes designed to save $2 million annually, and will probably refuse to grant another wage boost...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: 'He Never Returned' | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...Singer, a moon-based team could send a missile from moon to earth in considerably less than two days. "The improvements in space and missile technology that will be required actually to put a man on the moon will perforce include the means for reducing moon-to-earth transit times to the order of hours [and perhaps] minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RACE INTO SPACE | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...observers on the ground, elaborate preparations went to naught. Crowds that gathered on North Shore beaches saw only a dramatic blackening of the clouded sky. The heavy mist and cloud cover effectively blocked the view of the moon's transit, making smoked glasses and exposed x-ray film completely useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Fly Above Clouds, See Solar Eclipse | 10/3/1959 | See Source »

Tinker to Evers to Chance. In Chicago, transit authority detectives spied Robert Hinton picking a pocket at a crowded bus stop, held off long enough to let Franklin Palmer pick Hinton's pocket, then arrested both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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