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The MTA purchased and took over subway, elevated, streetcar, and bus operations from the Boston Elevated Railway in 1947. [15] In the 1950s, the MTA ran new subway extensions, while the last two streetcar lines running into the Pleasant Street Portal of the Tremont Street Subway were substituted with buses in 1953 and 1962. [16]
Share of the American Express Company, 1865. In 1850, American Express was started as a freight forwarding company in Buffalo, New York. [13] It was founded as a joint-stock corporation by the merger of the cash-in-transit companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William G. Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor ...
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
Irvine (/ ˈ ɜːr v aɪ n /) is a master-planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971.
Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), [7] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Over 400 employees were transferred or terminated. [ 37 ] After starting service to Logan in 2004, JetBlue was a major operator at Logan Airport by 2008 and its largest carrier by 2011, with flights to cities throughout North America and the Caribbean. [ 38 ]
Bergen and Passaic counties, 1872. Passaic County (/ p ə ˈ s eɪ. ɪ k / pə-SAY-ik) is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is part of the New York metropolitan area.As of the 2020 United States census, the county was the state's eighth-most-populous county, [7] with a population of 524,118, [1] [2] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 22,892 (+4.6%) from the 2010 ...