Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TRANSIT - Anna Seghers - Little, Brown...
Should Grandmother Die Alone? In the fantastic world of which Author Seghers writes, this strange story does not seem fantastic. For Transit is filled with the weird reality of the flight of thousands of refugees to U.S. consulates that wielded a power of life & death over them. Day after day the refugees stand in endless lines, waiting for the precious documents with their bindings of red tape. Incessantly they discuss the same things-visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they...
...passport when the Nazis smashed toward it. He started south in his tiny Citroën. When "that old rat" Pétain took over, Karlweis plunged desperately on. Says he: "I was a very lucky man." Someone who had admired him in a movie helped him get a transit visa to Spain. From there another admirer helped get him to Portugal. Three months later he was in Manhattan...
...England has gone completely helicopter-happy. Last week the Boston, Worcester and New York Street Railway Co. (Massachusetts bus line) applied to CAB for a postwar helicopter service. Others who plan to blanket New England with helicopter service-Northeast Airlines, Greyhound Corp., Vermont Transit, White Circle Bus, the Checker Taxi Co. of Boston, and famed merchants William Filene's Sons...
...Cairo, a junction point between London, Washington and Moscow, British authorities suddenly requisitioned the Mena hotel, acted as though they were readying it for all-important guests to be in residence or in transit...