Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command can be on liberty at one time; in effect the men will get only one day in town for every three they have been getting up to now. An additional order requires the hours of going on liberty and reporting back to be staggered, so public transit will not be overloaded at rush hours...
Nazis in the Woodpile. The Allies can thank Sweden for the cold-blooded wisdom of refusing to allow British and French troops transit to the Finnish-Russian front in 1940. Had that been allowed, the alignment of Russia on the side of the Allies might never have occurred. Now the Swedes quibble ever absolute neutrality by insisting that troops moving between Norway and Germany carry no arms...
Chicago's newspapers (except the Tribune) pointed out that the State Commission was appointed by Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, who might conceivably hate to see Democrat Ed Kelly get credit for untangling the transit tangle. Mayor Kelly shouted: "An outrage. . . ." But the Commission's decision was final...
...Best estimates of Axis losses in all African campaigns: Germans killed, permanently disabled, taken prisoner, lost in transit-250,000; Italian losses in North and East Africa-39 divisions, 470,000 men. Total Axis losses in North Africa: 600,000 men, 2,000 tanks, 1,500 guns, 5,000 aircraft, 3,000 motor vehicles...
...hacking away at an Army contract for 150,000 pants hangers. In Cleveland four J.A. companies are turning out 10,000 foundry wedges for aircraft parts every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...