Word: transition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the papers which are expected to be of special interest is one by J. E. Willis on the crossed-vertical transit which is a new instrument of fundamental astronomy. Frederick Slocum is to give a preliminary report on the probability of clear sky for the 1932 total eclipse...
...curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly. His projected city has a concentrated business district in the centre of vast areas of suburban residence zones. In the morning the workers pass by rapid transit to large "vomitories" or stations whence they are whisked by subways to the basements of their respective skyscrapers. The vertical city quickly fills up, work is begun. Shortly after noonday the working day is over-"the city will empty as though by a deep breath." If man applies himself, says...
...information regarding foreign markets and conditions" to its customers. By assuming responsibility for the shipment while en route, Bush Service will be able to give the exporter what is known as "a continuous document of possession," so that he can borrow money on his goods while they are in transit. At present such goods are a frozen asset while in transit. A middle-west manufacturer can put goods for export on a railroad train and forget about them until he receives the money for them from Bush Service, which will collect his customers' bills in Europe. An indication...
...suggest the tremendous power of the Lexington, the Navy's publicists have broadcast the fact that her 190.000 h. p. turbo-electric engines could develop enough electricity "to light a city the size of Philadelphia, to operate the transit facilities of a city the size of New York...
Like a great pumping plant is the U. S. Postal service, pumping current periodicals from the country's publishing reservoirs to individual subscribers. Inevitably a certain amount of the flow is impeded in transit by obsolete or illegible addresses, torn wrappers, clerical stupidity. Undelivered copies of national magazines back up in central post offices like windfalls at a beaverdam. Lately the Post Office Department has authorized postmasters to sell off windfall magazines at public auction...