Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken personally to its destination by Dr. H. Simonnet, of the University of Paris, aboard the He de France on its first post-war crossing to Europe. The cost of the food was about sixty dollars, only one seventieth of the total sum spent on supplies now in transit...
...Transit has been one of his biggest headaches. Last week's strike was typical. The trolleymen's wages were fixed in the spring by the city's supervisors and, according to the city charter, would have to stand for one year. The trolleymen argued that Lapham should declare an emergency and boost their wages by edict. Although he saw some justice in their wage demands, he refused to jump through that legal loophole...
Expansion & Collaboration. The St. George Association now numbers 23 chapters (all in New York) and 20,000-odd members-firemen, post office, utility and transit workers, Treasury and hospital employes. Last week, the Association's National Committee decided the time had come for national expansion; requests for information were coming in from potential chapters in other U.S. cities. This summer 61-year-old Chaplain Nesbitt plans to start things moving in Washington, D.C., Wilmington and Cape Cod while on "vacation" from his trim, tree-shaded St. Luke's Church in The Bronx. Alive to the perils of bigotry...
...ready to sign a far-reaching agreement, but premature publicity embarrassed both him and the State Department. Last week Secretary Byrnes announced that the U.S.-built air base on Santa Maria island was being turned back to Portugal for peaceful development. The U.S. got a sop: temporary (18 months) transit rights. The State Department could base a hope on the French adage: "Nothing endures as long as the temporary...
...everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...