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 National City Lines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
National City Lines was formed in 1936 as a holding company, for the express purpose of acquiring local transit systems throughout the country, mostly in medium-size cities.
Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines (NCL), a holding company sponsored and funded by General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum, bought out more than 100 electric surface-traction (streetcar) systems in 45 cities (including New York, Philadelphia, St.
The company began investing in streetcar lines in the late 1920s the shortlived United Cities Motor Transit (UCMT), a direct subsidiary of GM which lasted from 1932 until 1935 when the American Transit Association (ATA) censured the company for converting streetcar systems to bus lines.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_City_Lines   (363 words)

  
 New York City - Open Encyclopedia
New York City, JFK International Airport, La Guardia Airport
The Port Authority also owns and operates the three major airports in the New York City area, JFK International Airport in Jamaica, Newark Liberty International in Newark, New Jersey, and La Guardia Airport in Flushing, as well as the AirTrain.
New York City is at the heart of the New York metropolitan area with a population of around 21 million, which itself is part of the so-called BosWash megalopolis extending from Boston to Washington, DC, a core economic region of the nation with a population of approximately 44 million people.
open-encyclopedia.com /New_York_City   (5433 words)

  
 General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
None of that means that "National City Lines" (and, by extension, GM) was not a significant player in demise of the urban streetcar.
Streetcar systems failed for other reasons than National City Lines: System deterioration during World War II; politically or socially-motivated opponents of streetcar systems, such as the controversial urban developer Robert Moses and New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; federal subsidy of competing systems; competition with automobiles for road space; and suburbanization all played roles.
It combined with Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and two other companies to form National City Lines, which actually purchased streetcar systems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Motors_Streetcar_Conspiracy   (1035 words)

  
 Jersey City - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jersey City
The city has 25 entries on the national register of historic places including a power house, the county courthouse, and the YMCA.
City and port in northeastern New Jersey, USA, on a peninsula bordered by the Hudson and Hackensack rivers to the north, and by New York and Newark bays to the south; seat of Hudson County; population (2000 est) 240,100.
The city is the seat of Saint Peter's College (1872) and Jersey City State College (1927).
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Jersey+City   (406 words)

  
 Capital Currency Exchange v. National Westminster Bank
We rejected this argument on the ground that antitrust legislation in 1970 did not incorporate the holding of National City I because "the result in National City Lines [I] was effectively overruled by Congress in 1948 when it enacted [§ 1404(a)]." Id.
Indeed, the National City II Court did not distinguish § 1404(a) from the common law doctrine of forum non conveniens, noting that the issue before it was whether § 1404(a) "extends the doctrine of forum non conveniens to antitrust suits." See id.
In National City I, the government sued a number of corporations under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1 and 2, alleging that the defendants conspired to monopolize public transportation in a number of cities.
lw.bna.com /lw/19980929/979228.htm   (4532 words)

  
 Pacific Electric Pasadena Local Lines
Previously, Pacific City Lines had purchased other Southern Pacific-owned streetcar companies in San Jose, Fresno and Stockton---all of which properties were speedily converted to 100% bus operation.
Lines involved and dates they were converted to bus operation: North Loop(July 3, 1923) Tournament Park(July 22, 1923) N. Orange Grove(July 29, 1923) E. Washington(July 29, 1923) Arroyo Seco(September 6, 1923) To establish a bus system in Pasadena, PE spent $500,000 for a garage and parking area at Broadway and Bellevue, plus 45 new busses.
The land upon which the city itself was laid out slopes gradually from the north toward the southeast, and has an average elevation of 859 feet.
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 National City
National City adopted a cash balance plan formula for the pension plan in the first quarter of 1998 resulting in a decrease of $95.8 million in the pension benefit obligation and a reduction of $14.9 million in pension costs during 1998.
The impact of adopting the provisions of this statement on National City's financial position, results of operations and cash flow subsequent to the effective date is not currently estimable and will depend on the financial position of the Corporation and the nature and purpose of the derivative instruments in use by management at that time.
National City issued 104.9 million shares of common stock to the shareholders of FOA based upon an exchange ratio of 1.2 shares of National City common stock for each outstanding share of FOA common stock.
www.prnewswire.com /cnoc/NCCnotes.html   (8430 words)

  
 Taken for a Ride - How General Motors (GM) Conspired to Destroy Rail Trolley Systems
And the individuals involved—like the treasurer of General Motors who had actively run Pacific City Lines, one of the subsidiaries, and was a major moving factor in all of National City Lines' operations—he was fined the magnanimous sum of $1 at the conclusion of the trial.
National City Lines, General Motors and the other defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to monopolize the local transportation field.
National City now in top place as operator of city route miles.
www.culturechange.org /issue10/taken-for-a-ride.htm   (1597 words)

  
 Public Interest: New York: the "old city." - The Encyclopedia of New York City
For New York City's current economic and social woes have been accompanied by a spate of major scholarly works that are unparalleled and were unavailable in the days of New York's glory, wherever we place it.
The city suffers under a burden of social costs that impose tremendous strains on its budget and that require an array of taxes and a level of taxation unparalleled in any other American city.
Since the late 1960s, an inexorable one-seventh or so of the city's population, one million people, has been on welfare, a figure far transcending the 300,000 on welfare at the beginning of the 1960s.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0377/is_n125/ai_18798600   (1363 words)

  
 National City
National City's credit performance has been clearly superior over repeated business cycles, and we expect that to be the case over the next cycle as well.
National City acknowledges the contribution of Richard F. Chormann, former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of First of America Bank Corporation, toward building a well-respected, high-quality banking organization over the course of his 41-year career.
National City Mortgage is perhaps the most resounding success story of the year.
www.prnewswire.com /cnoc/NCCltr.html   (1230 words)

  
 Public Transport shut down for private gain. Notes & Chomsky on National City Lines, the demise of the streetcar.
Notes and Chomsky on National City Lines, the demise of the streetcar.
National City Lines; the big guys close down public transport in the USA
In earlier days, Vietnam was described as "a going laboratory where we see subversive insurgency...being applied in all its forms" (Maxwell Taylor), providing opportunities for "experiments with population and resource control methods" and "nation building." The Marine occupation of Haiti was described in similar terms, as we have seen.
www.bilderberg.org /nclchoms.htm   (689 words)

  
 No. 87809, Southwestern Illinois Development Authority v. National City Environmental, L.L.C. (Il. S. Ct.)
He attributed the development of the golf course to the racetrack and testified that several developers were negotiating plans with the city to develop motels and restaurants in the area.
If this taking were permitted, lines to enter parking lots might be shortened and pedestrians might be able to cross from parking areas to event areas in a safer manner.
I also agree with that portion of the statement of facts outlining the creation of SWIDA, the purposes of SWIDA, and the issuance of bonds by SWIDA to finance the costs of acquiring, constructing and installing a multipurpose automotive sports and training facility in the City of Madison.
www.state.il.us /court/Opinions/SupremeCourt/2002/April/Opinions/Html/87809.htm   (12083 words)

  
 Coastal Post Article - Getting There: Light Rail?
National City Lines, headed by Fitzgerald, but privately funded by a consortium organized by Sloan and friends began buying up the rail systems in America's cities, one by one.
In 1936, National City Lines, along with General Motors, was found guilty.
The day National City Lines signed a purchase agreement, their staff took over.
www.coastalpost.com /97/9/16.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Business Financing - Corporate - National City Corporation
National City is the No. 1* Small Business Administration lender in the six-state region we serve.
National City has the resources to provide financial solutions to help your company succeed.
Business Financing - Corporate - National City Corporation
www.nationalcity.com /corporate/bizfinancing/default.asp   (220 words)

  
 The Conspiracy Revisited
Over its corporate life National City Lines and related companies controlled a total of perhaps sixty systems.
The company came under the control of bus interests, and with the encouragement of city officials streetcars were abandoned in the mid-1930s.
NCL acquisitions in the 1930s were in cities of less than 100,000, ranging down to a low of 17,000.
www.erha.org /plot.htm   (1470 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
The complaint charges that the supplier appellees furnish capital to the City Lines for acquiring control of the local operating systems, upon the understanding that the City Lines cause all requirements of the local systems in busses, petroleum products, tires and tubes to be purchased from the supplier appellees and no other sellers.
National is a holding company with operations directed from Chicago.
The largest concentrations of smaller systems are in Illinois, with eleven cities; California with nine (excluding Los Angeles); and Michigan with four.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/334/573.html   (7488 words)

  
 National City
National City Mortgage services, sells and originates mortgages through a network of 154 retail mortgage offices and wholesale/ broker branches in 35 states and National City member banks within the six-state footprint.
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, National City is an $88 billion-asset company providing banking and financial services primarily in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.
The corporation is 88% owned by National City and its stock trades separately on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NAP.
www.prnewswire.com /cnoc/NCCprof.html   (354 words)

  
 Time : Banking goes national; big-city moneymen reach across state lines in search of the choicest markets. @ HighBeam Research
Start / T / Time / February 13, 1984 / Banking goes national; big-city moneymen reach across state lines in search of the choicest markets.
Banking goes national; big-city moneymen reach across state lines in search of the choicest markets.
Current Article: Banking goes national; big-city moneymen reach across state lines in search of the choicest markets.
static.highbeam.com /t/time/february131984/bankinggoesnationalbigcitymoneymenreachacrossstate/index.html   (210 words)

  
 Mortgages - Personal - National City Corporation
National City does not warrant or guarantee the information or recommendations provided by any third party site.
National City disclaims all liability with regard to your use of third party web sites.
The mortgages are products of National City Mortgage Co, a subsidiary of National City Bank of Indiana.
www.nationalcity.com /personal/mortgages   (408 words)

  
 NATIONAL CITY LINES
Except for properties not wholly owned by National City Lines, all buses of the various properties generally were consecutively numbered in a single series.
Indicated are National City Lines properties originally receiving the newly delivered buses.
Most buses were built by General Motors, one of the companies controlling National City Lines.
www.hofsport.com /chirailfan/holdbuo.html   (224 words)

  
 The Third Rail - NCL in Philadelphia - page 2
The three trolley routes that circled City Hall continued to be operated with 1926 model streetcars while streamlined trolleys half their age were hidden, out of service, around the system as spares and as cars awaiting repairs.
The company spurned an offer of the City government to reimburse the cost of building connecting track to permit continued subway operation on the downtown end of one trolley route after the subway-surface tunnel facility was extended in late 1955.
The City refused to do this after the purchase of 300 or 650 units at $1,000 per bus over Mack’s price and so the last 350 units were bought for cash.
rapidtransit.com /net/thirdrail/0005/phil2.htm   (606 words)

  
 National City Corporation News
National City Corp. 's blockbuster balance-sheet management decision to shift away from holding mortgages in its portfolio and toward an "originate-and-sell" model does not mean the bank sees the mortgage...
National City Corp. said Monday it expects to begin recognizing charges in the current quarter for a multiyear program designed to increase revenue, improve performance and cut costs.
Julia M. Johnson Cleveland-based National City Corp. has been on the St. Louis banking scene for a year and a half, but the company already is making its presence known in local charitable giving.
www.topix.net /com/ncc   (1215 words)

  
 National City Lines, Inc. Records, 1942-1956
The records, 1942-1956, of National City Lines, Inc., consist of the operating records of the company's Southern Region, which operated public transportation service in Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama: Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Wichita Falls, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Jackson, Mississippi; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Southern Region of National City Lines, Inc., located in Jackson, Mississippi, operates public transportation in Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama; Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Wichita Falls, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Jackson, Mississippi; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
To quote in print, or otherwise reproduce in whole or in part in any publication, including on the Worldwide Web, any material from this collection, the researcher must obtain permission from (1) the owner of the physical property and (2) the holder of the copyright.
www.library.gsu.edu /spcoll/Collections/Labor/L1976-09.htm   (391 words)

  
 TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN ILLINOIS
Many of these transit systems were sold in 1936 to the newly formed National City Lines, in the first major cases of "bustitution", or conversion of streetcar systems to buses.
1936-1966 - Quincy City Lines (National City Lines)
By the end of 1936, all local lines were disposed of, except in Peoria.
members.aol.com /chirailfan/ztransim.html   (563 words)

  
 Online Banking At National City Bank
among national city bank online banking financial services institutions; accounts of individuals at institutions which are insured online banking at national city bank are protected for
A bank raises funds by attracting deposits, borrowing money in the inter-bank online banking at national city bank market, or issuing Services typically offered by banks the oral notice.
The Committee also oversees online banking at national city bank the work of the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, the SEC, and other financial services regulators.
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 National City to offer ID theft service - 2005-05-23
National City Corp. has launched a product to protect its customers against identity theft, the company announced Monday.
National City Corp. (NYSE: NCC) is one of the nation's largest financial holding companies.
Identity theft protection for their financial accounts unrelated to National City;
www.bizjournals.com /louisville/stories/2005/05/23/daily2.html   (520 words)

  
 Seattle City Light Power Lines in the North Cascades National Park Complex, Washington
The National Park Service shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Although these data have been processed successfully on computer systems at the National Park Service, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on other systems for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
The National Park Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data.
wa-node.gis.washington.edu /usgsbrd/cfs-noca-SCLpower.html   (427 words)

  
 The Vicksburg National Military Park and vicinity showing lines of siege and defense of the city. National cemetery in background. Civil War Maps and Drawings
The Vicksburg National Military Park and vicinity showing lines of siege and defense of the city.
Description: The Vicksburg National Military Park and vicinity showing lines of siege and defense of the city.
Panoramic map in which "black lines indicate the Union trenches," "red lines indicate the Confederate line of defense," "white lines show the park roads," and "the stars mark general headquarters."
www.rainfall.com /posters/mapscivilwar/8281.htm   (307 words)

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