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May 29, 1929

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SUBURBAN TRANSIT IN A UNIFED SYSTEM URGED BY EXPERTS; Regional Plan Calls for Huge Independent Belt Line to Serve 700,000,000 a Year. FAVORS DEEP TUBES IN CITY First Step Proposes a JerseyManhattan-Long Island LoopRunning Under Two Rivers.46 AIRPORTS SUGGESTED Prompt Acquisition of Sites Advised--Governors Island Backed asa "Magnificent Portal." System to Operate as Unit. Regional Plan Urges Commuters' Transit System New Routes Are Provided. Details of First Step. Proposals of Ultimate Plan. Problem of Electrification.

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Experts urge suburban transit in unified system; airports suggested; map

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Harry Frankfurt

1929Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic (died 2023)[†]

Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and Ohio State University.

Peter Higgs

1929Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)[†]

Peter Ware Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

Roberto Vargas

1929Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014)[†]

Roberto Enrique Vargas Vélez was a pitcher in Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball. Vargas played for the Chicago American Giants for one season in 1948, in which he was named a Negro League All-Star. He also played one season for the Milwaukee Braves of the National League during the 1955 season. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico.