Word: transits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold their own by pouring their advertising into neighborhood papers. Stores desperately seek new means of getting word to potential customers; for $750 a day, Manhattan's S. Klein department stores bought ad posters on subway car windows-and gladly chipped in another $2,640 to have 600 transit workers paste them...
...central issue raised by the newspaper strike cannot be settled by the ordinary processes of negotiation. It is the same issue that is at stake in the East and Gulf Coast dock-workers' strikes and the Philadelphia transit workers' strike: how to deal with men whose jobs are imperiled by the introduction of new machinery. The I.T.U.'s automation policy is extremely conservative; the typographers have rejected even the most reasonable management offer on technological unemployment. The publishers are willing not to fire any men to make room for advanced machinery, but to leave unfilled vacancies created by death...
...liberalized Rules Committee would mean that a batch of New Frontier legislation would be waved through the House. They were certainly not very well founded. Even as expanded, the Rules Committee in the 87th Congress held up 24 bills, including Administration proposals on an urban-affairs department, a mass-transit act, broad federal aid to education, and a youth-conservation corps. More important, other priority Administration bills were either bottled up in other committees or defeated on the House floor...
...watching very closely to see that they don't move in and deprive us of tax revenue," Vellucci added. Bids for the property must be submitted to be Transit Authority before Dec. 28 Although Harvard's offer "seems to be the best deal right now," Vellucci said he might later support selling the land to another bidder if his development would pay more taxes...
Died. James Joseph Kilroy, 60, an inspector in Bethlehem Steel's Quincy shipyards, who may or may not have been the Kilroy who was there; of lung cancer; in Boston. In answer to a 1946 American Transit Association contest to discover the originator of the World War II slogan carried by G.I.s to the ends of the earth, Kilroy replied that he had crawled deep inside ships' hulls, chalking KILROY WAS HERE as his inspector's mark. The Transit Association thought enough of his explanation to award him a prize: a 22-ton streetcar, which his nine...