Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Sam Reshevsky has a job as accountant for a Manhattan engineering & construction firm, coaches its chess team on the side. For recreation he plays rapid-transit chess, a variation in which competitors are allowed only ten seconds per move...
...week's end there was no agreement on use of the fleet units at Dakar. But Allied navies were given permission to use the port. Neighboring airfields were thrown open as transit points. There was evidence that the status quo in Morocco and Algeria was stabilized. The price: recognition of Darlan as head of the French State and his new "imperial council" as the repository of French sovereignty...
...climax of Casablanca concerns the efforts of Laszlo and his wife to leave Morocco. Rick has two letters of transit which would make that easy. Reluctant to help, Mr. Bogart at last does the manly thing and Mr. Rains saves him from the consequences. Nothing short of an invasion could add much to Casablanca...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria advertised: "While the United Nations are fightmg for the 'Four Freedoms' on a worldwide front, the Waldorf-Astoria offers you these Four Freedoms on the Home Front: Freedom from servant problems! Freedom from transit problems! Freedom from maintenance problems! Freedom from ownership problems!" (Croaked the liberal New Republic: ". . . an outrageous and inexcusable vulgarization and commercialization of President Roosevelt's famous phrase...
...long-established (1916) Great Lakes Transit Co. announced its stockholders' approval of a $165,000 expenditure by the steamship company to acquire three egg dehydration plants. Largest operators of Great Lakes package freighters, G.L.T.C. normally operated 14 hustling steamers. Before the war it was well content with its average 1,000,000 tons of package cargoes annually. But this year the Government requisitioned ten of G.L.T.C.'s ships for war service, and ODT ruled that the remaining four must carry grain. The package business is no more; profits have gone aglimmering...