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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prominent New Yorkers connected with traffic statistics say the London contention is buncombe. According to Frank Hedley, President of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the average speed of local New York subway trains on both east and west sides is 16 miles per hour. From 96th and Chambers Street on the west side and from 125th Street and City Hall or Brooklyn Bridge on the east side an average speed, including stops, of 16 miles is maintained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Speed! | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...concern. Among the disjuncta membra of 1911 are the Anglo-American Oil Co., the Atlantic Refining Co., Borne, Serymser Co., Buckeye Pipe Line Co., Crescent Pipe Line Co., Cumberland Pipe Line Co., Eureka Pipe Line Co., Galena-Signal Oil Co., Illinois Pipe Line Co., Indiana Pipe Line Co., National Transit Co., National Transit Pump and Machinery Co., New York Transit Co., Northern Pipe Line Co., Ohio Oil Co., Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co., Pierce Oil Co., Pierce Pipe Line Co., Prairie Oil and Gas Co., Prairie Pipe Line Co., Solar Refining Co., South Penn. Oil Co., Penn-Mex Fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Standard Oil | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...navy in the world, it is only recently that he has decided that this is not enough. For there is much more air in the atmosphere than there is water in the ocean, and at present it seems as though air furnished as convenient and safe a medium of transit as water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DREADNAUGHTS OF THE AIR | 5/22/1923 | See Source »

...Council of Ambassadors insisted upon Lithuania making an agreement with Poland granting her transit facilities in the port. Lithuania, agreeing to the proviso, has sent delegates to Paris to confer with the Poles, under the auspices of the Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MEMEL | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...light heavyweight championship of the world, an honor tarnished in transit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Mar. 3, 1923 | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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