Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...
Vasili Kivlenko, who spent part of his five years at Magadan "transit" camp. He recalled: "All those physically weak were doomed; they soon fell sick and never recovered . . . Scurvy was widespread and the tents were particularly foul-smelling from scurvy and frost wounds-sweet from rotting flesh...
...native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told], Camp BBK held about 500,000 . . . [At BBK] I met prisoners . . . who had been there . . . with intervals, for their entire lives since...
Within one hour after midnight one night last week, every bus, streetcar and subway train on Philadelphia's 1,500 miles of transit system had been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...
Philadelphia's 3,000,000 melancholy straphangers had already been through two transit strikes since 1944. This time the union, which had gotten 40? an hour in raises since 1946, wanted 20? more. The Philadelphia Transportation Co. offered only...