Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stylish, but tired at the finish after a hard run over rain-drenched ground. His brace mate disgraced herself by chasing off after a covey of deer. Next good heat of the stake was run by Sulu, liver-&-white pointer bitch owned by Andrew G. C. Sage, whose Rapid Transit, champion in 1933, had run disappointingly the first day. Last year, Sulu had the honor of working in the runoffs as brace mate to Homewood Flirtatious the day Homewood Flirtatious won the Trials. Last week Sulu found six coveys and worked with dainty accuracy on single birds. That afternoon Homewood...
Whopping bond issues already filed or under consideration include $60,000,000 for Shell Union Oil; $65,000,000 for National Dairy Products; $90,000,000 for Pacific Gas & Electric; $70,000,000 for Virginian Railway; $92,000,000 for Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit...
...That" was a heavy curtain which had fallen backstage at the Locust Street Theatre, where Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was addressing some 1,600 employes of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Informed that a mere curtain had caused the disturbance, Mayor Wilson remarked: "I thought it was some of those gunmen...
...completed, that they should disband. Aligned with the Mayor was Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten, 47-year-old son of the late Thomas Eugene Mitten, who managed P. R. T. from 1911 until his death in 1929. Opposed to them was P. R. T.'s President Ralph Townsend ("Rapid Transit") Senter, who thought that the trustees had done a good job, should be continued in office. Since P. R. T. was before Federal Judge George A. Welsh on an application for 77-6 reorganization, the Court remained the final authority on the direction of P. R. T.'s perplexed...
...Company Plan also provides for elimination of the leases and unification of the transit lines in a bigger & better P. R. T. But the Company Plan offered underlying security holders some $87,000,000 in bonds of a new P. R. T. The Mayor protested that the "underliers" had already collected $250,000,000 in rentals, that their securities had a market value of not more than $30,000,000 and that they did not even claim a total investment of more than $53,000,000. Although the bond interest would not be as great as lease payments, the Mayor...