Word: transit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transit, valued at $516 and one of 15 devices used to shoot accurately the big army howitzers, has been missing since drill on Monday...
...tried Turkey, hoping to catch the Wiima as she passed through the Dardanelles. But the Turks, whose 4,000-man brigade in Korea has suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Chinese Reds, could not help either. An international convention guarantees free transit. At Suez it was the same: Britons and Egyptians watched but did nothing as the tanker slipped away. This week, the Wiima was halfway across the Indian Ocean, on course for the China coast. The only remaining chance of stopping her legally lay with Nationalist China's navy, which claims to be blockading the Communist...
...last 20 years, big-dealing Louis Wolfson has built up from scratch an empire with assets he estimates at $100 million plus. Among them: Manhattan's famed building firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott (Wolfson is chairman), a chain of 21 Florida theaters, Washington's Capital Transit Co., which controls the streetcars and buses in the capital...
...sacrificed, or at best modified, to the demands of what seemed to the Yard like a new-fangled science--Astronomy. The Dana House became the College observatory, its rooms filled with instruments. On the roof was a revolving turret on wheels for telescopic use ("Caboose" snorted Felton) and a transit mechanism rested in the main room...
...Transit operators took fixes on a marker in the Blue Hills, 11 miles away in Milton, but when an enterprising farmer built a barn next door, it cut off the view. By no means non-plussed, the University acquired right of way to the barn, and chopped a hole in its roof for sighting purposes...