Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...exporters had plenty to holler about too. Given only three days to comply with the new rules, fill out license applications, they asked that at least goods now in transit to foreign buyers be allowed to go through. Fumed the Wall Street Journal: ". . . The peremptory manner in which this action was taken, with practically no advance notice to the export trades, was a perfect illustration...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank & Trust Co.. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Studebaker Corp. In later years, Lawyer Cravath rarely tried a case or wrote a brief, but engineered some notable reorganizations: Westinghouse, Missouri Pacific R. R., Interborough Rapid Transit Co. A globetrotter, diner-out, music-lover (he became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera in 1931), Paul Cravath served in many a public enterprise, was decorated for his part in World War I missions...
...Transit across Finland to Norway and Sweden...