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Planned West End Street Railway system, 1885; consolidation of these lines was complete by 1887. See also 1880 horse railway map.. Mass transportation in Boston was provided by private companies, often granted charters by the state legislature for limited monopolies, with powers of eminent domain to establish a right-of-way, until the creation of the MTA in 1947.
Station: Indicates the MBTA's official name for the station. Indicates whether the station is accessible. (See MBTA accessibility for further details.): Line: Indicates the lines that stop at the given station.
In May, Google said 17% of its tech employees worldwide were women, and, in the U.S., 1% of its tech workers were black and 2% were Hispanic/Latino. [112] June 2014 brought reports from Yahoo! and Facebook. Yahoo! said that 15% of its tech jobs were held by women, 2% of its tech employees were black and 4% Hispanic. [113]
It has over 300 million active customer accounts globally. [35] Amazon saw large growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring more than 100,000 staff in the United States and Canada. [36] Some Amazon workers in the US, France, and Italy protested the company's decision to "run normal shifts" due to COVID-19's ease of spread in warehouses.
Soviet POWs and forced labourers who survived German captivity were sent to special "transit" or "filtration" camps meant to determine which were potential traitors. [192] Of the approximately 4 million to be repatriated, 2,660,013 were civilians and 1,539,475 were former POWs. [ 192 ]
Sign at the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border indicating that limits in the Republic are shown in km/h. Blue metric conversion reminder sign used in Ontario, Canada near the US border. All countries, with the exception of the United States and the United Kingdom, use the metric system. Some countries mark this fact by using units on ...
It has 17 acres (6.9 ha) of adjacent land and 1,400 parking spaces for employees. The airline planned to relocate 100 employees from Macon to the new headquarters. The Atlanta City Council and Mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin approved the new 25-year ASA lease, which also gave the airline new hangar space to work on 15 to 25 aircraft in ...
In 1887, Kalākaua was forced to sign the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Drafted by white businessmen and lawyers, the document stripped the king of much of his authority. It established a property qualification for voting that effectively disenfranchised most Hawaiians and immigrant laborers and favored the wealthier, white elite.