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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge DeVane, at that moment, was about as deep in litigation as he could get. Three days before, Tallahassee Negroes broke their own seven-month bus boycott and began a concerted ride-the-bus on a first-come, first-served-basis campaign. Cities Transit Inc. did not object (Negroes made up 60% of its passengers before the boycott). Tallahassee's city commission objected furiously, suspended the company's franchise for not enforcing segregation. The company responded with a plea for an injunction preventing interference with its operations until the court decided whether Florida's bus-segregation...
...TRANSIT SYSTEM, successor to Capital Transit Co., Washington's long-limping bus and streetcar system, is finally getting on the track under new management after being milked of millions by Financier Louis Wolfson (TIME, June 25). Company changed net loss of $4,836 in September to $92,986 profit in October, now is enjoying first big passenger upswing since...
...Best Defense. In Cleveland, on the day he was supposed to testify at his trial on charges of robbing a grocery, Robert E. Crawford was arrested, charged with stealing three tons of scrap metal from a transit-system yard...
...discrimination against transit, through the canal...
Then Syria demanded bigger transit fees. I.P.C. agreed, worked out a mileage-volume pipeline formula that would pay Syria $18 million annually, threw in an extra $23.8 million to settle past claims. Last January it offered the same arrangement to Lebanon, which asked pay equal to Syria's, though I.P.C.'s Lebanese lines traveled one-thirteenth the distance and carried half the volume...