Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment sent overseas has sometimes been damaged in transit due to faulty packing, lost through inefficient storage, or has sat useless for lack of simple parts like spark plugs or coils. Where parts have been ordered they have often served no good end: there is no sense ordering as many spare truck cabs as spare fan belts-one seldom requires replacement, the other frequently does...
Setting out to "get acquainted with all the boat people," Mrs. Slocum landed bigger & bigger jobs. Now her Boat Transit Co. has 23 tractors and trailers, some of special sizes. Her business came not only from boatbuilders like Chris-Craft at Algonac, but from private yachtsmen who wanted to sail into strange inland waters, have their boats trucked home. Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself. Husband Lawrence does...
Evidently prudent Britain was risking no transit by enemy ships, Red Cross or no Red Cross...
...invasion of his country began, Lednicki, who was then a professor at both the Universities of Cracow and Brussels, was stranded by the German victory and occupation. But diplomatic help from a friendly Belgian government, plus the friendship of an Italian princess for Ledniciki's sister, made possible his transit to France and eventually to this country...
After escaping the grasping tentacles of the Gestapo in Poland, Lednicki became an aid of the Polish government in exile at Anjou in France and was in Paris when Marshal Potain announced the Armistice in June 1940. Securing a transit visa from a kind French official he journeyed to Lisbon, where he received an American visa and came here to assume a post offered him by Harvard...