Word: transition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Windy City in coveys, flocks, flights. If airplanes ever get big enough, even this may come to pass. . For the present, Chicagoans and Texans alike are content to rejoice that their lette. 3 back and forth about cows, and about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago and Dallas, the Post Office Department's third contract air route...
...bridgework grinned. "It's all the same to me", it gestured, and went out to smoke. Sic transit--but that again is Russian...
...China to be allowed to write her own tariff schedules after Jan. 1, 1929, and to agree in return to abolish the internal "likin" (transit duties) and other trade taxes; this arrangement to be embodied in a new treaty, supplanting the present customs treaties between China and the Powers; the actual collection of the customs money to remain in the hands of the Powers as at present...
Appointed Transit Chairman...
Mayor Peters appointed him school house commissioner in 1919, and a little later he was made chairman of the Boston Transit Commission. It was while holding this office that Mr. Nichols was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Massachusetts by President Harding...