Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exporters had plenty to holler about too. Given only three days to comply with the new rules, fill out license applications, they asked that at least goods now in transit to foreign buyers be allowed to go through. Fumed the Wall Street Journal: ". . . The peremptory manner in which this action was taken, with practically no advance notice to the export trades, was a perfect illustration...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank & Trust Co.. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Studebaker Corp. In later years, Lawyer Cravath rarely tried a case or wrote a brief, but engineered some notable reorganizations: Westinghouse, Missouri Pacific R. R., Interborough Rapid Transit Co. A globetrotter, diner-out, music-lover (he became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera in 1931), Paul Cravath served in many a public enterprise, was decorated for his part in World War I missions...
...Transit across Finland to Norway and Sweden...
Namsos. The Germans' stronghold at Trondheim (Norway's capital when Olaf Tryggvasson was King, circa 996), commands mid-Norway's big railhead for transit across to Sweden and down to Oslo. Just east of it, at Varnes, lies mid-Norway's only big land air base. As the German invaders hustled to consolidate their position around Trondheim and establish a defense line across to the Swedish border, the Allies landed at Namsos, 100 miles north. The Namsos contingent soon made contact with Norwegian troops massing above Steinkjer, near Trondheim Fjord's head. These wiped...
British agents having bought up or leased all the loose Danube tanker barges in sight, Nazis were relieved last week when Yugoslavia-through which the Danube winds for some 200 miles-released seven big German oil barges which had been held for special transit permits...