Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years most New Yorkers have agreed on a program for bettering the lot of the subway sardine: 1) unification of the city's three systems (Interborough Rapid Transit. Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, the city-owned Independent) under municipal ownership & operation; 2) maintenance of the 5? fare; 3) more subways to relieve congestion. But the history of Unification reads like a machine-age edition of Pilgrim's Progress. The city had to find ways & means of setting aside contracts with IRT and BMT (good until 1967, 1969), raising money enough to buy out private interests. After nearly 20 years...
...19th-Century stargazer once said that Mercury "seems to exist for no other reason than to throw discredit on astronomers." Last week the little planet (diameter 3,100 miles) was scheduled for a transit across the blazing face of the sun. From complicated formulas and tables, scientists had carefully determined the time. But when astronomers at Mt. Wilson's famed observatory shot the passage with motion-picture film synchronized with a clock, they found Mercury was 30 seconds late for its performance...
...Madrid buzzed reports of a Cabinet squabble said to have occurred about the time Dictator Franco decided to play put-&-take with his brother-in-law. The then Spanish Foreign Minister, Colonel Juan Beigbeder, was said to have rushed to the Generalissimo in a passion because transit visas through Spain which he had given to Refugee Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo...
...natural form for a nation 3,000 miles wide, as it is for the writer who 1) wants to assemble incidents without pretext of a plot, 2) feels vague cosmic significances in man's wanderings. This week two picaresque stories are mirror images of each other. In Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly ruined Curly 's business. Martin Flavin...
...Panama Canal can be attacked in three general ways: 1) enemy saboteurs might block its locks or destroy its gates by blowing up a shipful of explosives on an apparently peaceful transit of the Ditch; 2) bombers launched from an enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise raid in smashing lock machinery or breaching the great dam of Gatun Lake, thereby draining the Canal of water; 3) having gained a foothold in the Caribbean area, an enemy might go about systematic destruction of the Canal with large-scale attacks...