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Fish Flop. In Seattle when a woman complained to the city transit system that she had been splashed by goldfish in another passenger's bowl, a ruling was made that goldfish could ride city busses only if they lay still...
...urged, would cost well over $1,000,000,000 and take two-thirds of the whole U.S. 1940 output of alloy steel, which has plenty of other defense uses. Furthermore, road speed is not the chief railroad bottleneck. Freight cars average only two hours a day in transit; what slows them up is not their friction bearings but standing in terminals, loading, unloading and making up trains...
Another close friend and great admirer of "Kitty" is his classmate, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland. He was very glad to write an article for the special Crimson Issue, but much to his regret and to ours the article was lost in transit...
What infuriated Arnstein most of all is Burma's 1% ad valorem tax on all merchandise in transit, a levy which would net the British possession's Government $1,000,000 on U.S. shipments to China...
...citizens will have only fleeting glimpses of the Duke of Windsor and his Duchess when the couple go to Canada. The U.S. State Department has issued them only transit visas, ∙ ∙ After a three-month separation the First Lady of Ethiopia has left Britain to join Haile Selossie in Addis Ababa, ∙ ∙ When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged...