Word: transits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panama Bay. Thousands of officers and men were on shore leave, pending a leisurely fortnight's "fleet march" through the Canal, when Admiral David Foote Sellers, Fleet Commander, suddenly decided: "The presence of the Fleet at the Canal . . . presents an excellent opportunity to execute a movement involving rapid transit such as might be necessary in case of emergency...
...city's expenditures some $13,000,000 by salary reductions, furloughs, consolidation of departments, abolition of useless jobs, of which 1,010 were abolished at once. What made the bill seem a puny thing to the Mayor was that such populous and politically potent city departments as Transit and Education had been exempted by the Legislature from pay cuts and reorganization...
...Wiggin companies netted $2,798,000 despite $5.300,000 in losses in 1931-32. 3) That in the same five years Mr. Wiggin, wife, daughters and holding companies paid $3,493,000 in Federal taxes. 4) That in 1932 while chairman of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp.'s finance committee Mr. Wiggin sold 26,400 shares of B.M.T. just before the dividend was passed and Chase sold 55,000 shares of B.M.T. that had been put up as collateral for a loan to Gerhard M. Dahl, board chairman of B.M.T. Mr. Dahl, not called as a witness, quickly denied having...
...year for life. In addition in recent years he also received salaries from: American Locomotive, $300 a month American Sugar Refining, $300 a month Armour & Co. (now nothing), previously $1,000 a month, still earlier $40,000 a year American Express (formerly) $3,000 a year Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (formerly) $20,000 a year International Paper, about $2,000 Stone & Webster (formerly) $1,500 Underwood Elliott Fisher, about $2,000 Western Union Telegraph, about $3,000 Finance Co. of Great Britain & America (formerly) about...
...speech sonorously accepting Tammany's renomination was loyally cheered by several hundred city employes but, since no newspaper was interested in him, it made scant news. Accurately he observed: "Everyone knows that the 5? fare does not permit a sufficient return on the city's enormous rapid transit investment. But the people have chosen to pay the interest on this investment in another form; that is, by taxation." The earnest, bumbling Mayor took credit for having dismissed 8,000 city employes, for saving $15,000,000, even for Samuel Untermyer's four-year financial rehabilitation plan worked...