Word: transits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge strategic and economic importance, particularly as an invulnerable base for rockets. But, as with Antarctica, the strategists have had second thoughts. First off, the expense of ferrying missiles to the moon and installing them would be literally astronomical. Any rockets launched from the moon would be in transit to the earth for more than 30 hours, ample time for them to be detected, identified and destroyed by an anti-missile system. As for the moon's economic potential, any metal or mineral found there would have to be priceless beyond anything on earth to make it worth exploiting...
Controversy keeps dogging Louis Elwood Wolfson. On grounds that he had milked the company of millions, the Government in 1956 refused to renew his contract to run the Capital Transit bus-and-trolley line in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Co., of which Wolfson is chairman and controlling shareholder, pleaded nolo contendere to charges of bribing a county official in Washington State to help win the big Priest Rapids Dam construction job; the company paid a penalty of $50,000. Also that year, the Securities & Exchange Commission charged that Wolfson tried to drive down the market in American...
...cars in one grand smashup. The task of problem solving is falling increasingly on the state government in Sacramento or on Washington. After city and county authorities balked at using local tax funds, for example, the state put up $3,900,000 for seed money for a new rapid-transit system still in the planning stages...
...again. Give us funds for the Teacher Corps. Give us more resources for rent supplements. Give us the civil rights bill. Give us the means to prosecute the war against poverty. Give us the child-nutrition act. Give us the hospital bill. Give us the money for urban mass transit." And so on, through a list of bills that, if passed, said Johnson, "will give us the power to move ahead. This is no time for delay...
...outlanders love to laugh about how fouled up New York City is, - and rarely has the laughter been louder than during last January's transit strike. Since then a lot of cities across the nation have discovered that strikes by public employees-which Franklin D. Roosevelt once described as "unthinkable and intolerable"-are no laughing matter...