Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan Opera's under-lunged Italian tenor wing has been huffing & puffing, in a vain attempt to bring the house down, ever since 1941. That was when the Met's Swedish mainstay, Jussi Björling, was refused a transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...
...hotels, trains and stations, and on the streets of every city, Army provost officers (military police), Mounties and civilian police halted and questioned uniformed men. Squads raided poolrooms and bowling alleys. At the border, customs officials refused transit to men who did not have mobilization-board permits to leave the country (some deserters were known to be in the U.S. Northwest). By listing desertion penalties, Government-sponsored newspaper advertisements tried to coax deserters to return...
...tools Britain bought had originally cost the U.S. $166,000,000, but the deal was not quite the bargain for Britain that it seemed. To keep the bookkeeping record straight, FEA Boss Leo Crowley had thriftily included in his bill the cost of tools sunk in transit or later bombed out in Britain...
Fate of the much-discussed "pillbox" kiosk in Harvard Square will be decided at a meeting between Cambridge police and Boston El officials next Tuesday, according to word received yesterday from the transit department at Police headquarters...
...express highways, radiating from downtown Boston, are among the professors' suggestions for improving upon Boston's limited accessibility by automobile. They place increasing emphasis on more and better highways as the key to the Hub's transportation difficulties, making no additions to the city's repaid transit system...