Word: transition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
...than a year. Last year a Federal Court upheld the 7? fare but it was never put into effect (TIME, May 14). Last week's Supreme Court decision, although it overturned the first decision, left the case still open and in the hands of New York's Transit Commission for final decision. The commission, however, favors nickels...
...during the hours that the library is open, without being hampered by the further stringent regulations in force at Fogg. There one finds the use of books outside the Reading Room verboten. In the case of volumes of prints, some slight cause exists in the possibility of damage in transit; but for ordinary textbooks there is no reason for not having the same opportunity of taking books to one's room as in the other departments of the Library...
...Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad; he became a power in transit. Oil gushed for him steadily through the years...
...studied at the Royal Polytechnical School in Berlin from 1877 to 1880. Before coming to Harvard he was Hayward Professor of Civil Engineering at M. I. T. He was for years consulting engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and chairman from 1913 to 1918 of the Boston Transit Commission. In 1918 he was a member of a delegation of American engineers to France and a member of the Franco-American Engineering Commission during 1919. He is the author of many works on engineering, and of "How To Study", published in 1917 and "The Young Man and Civil Engineering" published...