Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snapping at a big-eared little rabbit: "Well, if you must know, you came out of a hat." Punch has usually avoided divorce, profanity, violence and prone drunks, always relished outrageous puns (Henry VIII, after a choppy Channel crossing: "Yesterday all was fair, a glorious Sunday, but this sick transit spoils the glory o' Monday...
...Blond, hefty (225 lbs.) John Gunther has developed a rapid-transit system for writing books. His field trips for Inside Asia (1939) took a mere eleven months, for Inside Latin America (1941) only five. Now he has explored the 48 states on a jaunt lasting slightly more than a year. He has written a lot of letters (including one to every governor), interviewed many, and pumped a lot of local newsmen, some of whom are very helpful in the Gunther System, and apt to be highly flattered by such attention from one of journalism's most renowned panjandrums...
...Capital Transit Company agreed to fly small U.S. and Mexican flags from its streetcars and buses; the Pan-American Union donated 250 blow-ups of Mexican scenes for store windows; and signs shouting "Viva Mexico," "Welcome President Aleman," and "Bienvenido Don Miguel" were readied for hanging on lampposts. The Fire Department planned to arch two 100-ft. ladders in an inverted V over the Memorial Bridge, deck them in the red, white and green of Mexico, tack on huge pictures of President Aleman, and hang a giant Mexican flag from the point of the V. Some 18 bands were assigned...
Dockers & Docks. Last year, in the harbor's transit sheds (over 2,000,000 square feet) and grain elevators (15-million-bushel capacity), Montrealers handled nearly a billion tons of cargo. More than 6,000 ships (some 1,600 of them oceangoing) passed through the port's 100 miles of dredged (32½ feet minimum) channel and tied up at its ten miles of berths. A third of the city's 1,000,000-plus population makes a living from the port...
...Rapid Transit" is like ordinary chess except that the players are allowed only ten seconds per move. The high scorers in the preliminary round will play a final round to determine the winners who will receives prizes of books on chess...