Word: transit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some hard-to-get strategic item. With this in hand, it would then get an Italian license to export the raw materials to the allied country. But no consignment ever got to Britain or France. Either in Switzerland or in Belgium, where customs officers paid small heed to in-transit goods, the agency transshipped the stuff-from Switzerland by rail to Vienna and the East, from Antwerp by sea to Polish Gdynia...
...professors yesterday attacked as a total misinterpretation press reports that a Supreme Court order Monday had ended all racial segregation in public transit systems...
...Public Works Department ("Golden Arm" Sullivan's code name for the 4th Sappers Unmounted Light) attempted to erect scaling ladders (see foreground) but pikemen within kept the ladders without. In addition to the sidewalk squad, the City Council finally declared a state of emergency and seized the MTA. Thus Transit Authority equipment led the attack on Massachusetts Ave. and Arrow Street. Featured in the MTA fleet were three brand new Walter Snow-Fighters (Guaranteed 100% Traction) with an estimated 690 horsepower operating through fourteen gears forward and six back...
...surrender settled the strike and put the professionals back to work at their drawing boards, operating tables and lecture platforms. But it stopped far short of redefining the professional's position in Israel. "To our leaders," said one indignant Israeli, "the illiterate in the transit camp is still just as good as the brain surgeon in Hadassah Hospital, which is an admirable point of view for the Lord to hold but a damn silly...
...proved fortunately in error. Credit is due to both sides, but particularly to the Negroes. Their leaders are soft-spoken, educated men who have carried on a carefully organized campaign. As one indicted clergyman says, "We must use the weapon of love." Another, asked about the future of the transit company, said: "It can run buses as long as it wants to--but it will run them without Negroes until it gives us justice...