Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slowed down because some employes could not get to work. Traffic was disrupted, accidents increased. Detroiters howled with wrath, but were helpless. They thumbed rides, went to work on roller skates, on bicycles-built-for-two (see cut). A.F. of L. and C.I.O. were fighting for control of the transit workers, and while they fought Detroit got along as best it could...
What infuriated Arnstein most of all is Burma's 1% ad valorem tax on all merchandise in transit, a levy which would net the British possession's Government $1,000,000 on U.S. shipments to China...
...whole answer must be a rationalization of all U.S. transportation agencies, making the most efficient use of every railroad car, truck, pipeline and barge. Budd said this week that the average freight car was in transit only 10% of the time, suggested that carrying capacity of the present car supply might be lifted as much as 25% by faster loading and unloading. A transport coordinator (with fangs) could force such a move, as well as quicker routing which inter-railroad competition now prevents. He could also free the present freight-car supply from wasteful short-hauls and from way-freight...
...Capital Transit Co. hauled 108% more passengers in its busses and trolleys than in 1933, did not begin to carry all the traffic. Private autos jammed parking places, brushed fenders with 4,000 taxis, crawling at horse-& -buggy speed during the rush hours...
...territory she once owned. Hungary, which was chopped down after World War I from 125,000 square miles to 35,875 square miles, has by Nazi favor grown to 67,000 square miles. But Count Teleki had to pay for these gains. Last year Hungary issued over 6,000 transit visas to Nazi fifth columnists entering the Balkans disguised as tourists. Premier Teleki also obliged by letting German fighting forces and their supplies pass freely across Hungary on their way to browbeat Rumania and Bulgaria. But when he was asked to help invade Yugoslavia, with which Hungary signed a "pact...