Word: transition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make sure that key sections of the economy get what they need, the American Petroleum Institute drew up a tentative, voluntary rationing program. Under it, oil companies would give top priorities to farmers, doctors, transit lines, and the armed forces. If such voluntary means do not work, the House Committee warned: "There is simply no alternative" to Government controls and a return to oil rationing...
...would work better. Last week, five months after Townes came to town, the better and cleaner Times reached 47,077 circulation (up 4,000). In news coverage it was giving the staid Tacoma News-Tribune a run for its money. Crusading editorials against gambling in taverns and the poor transit system had ousted the canned variety, and Townes was eyeing the circulation. territory of the nearby Seattle Times...
Transplanting a show from Broadway to Hollywood involves something more than railway fare. Somewhere in transit "The Voice of the Turtle" acquired new scenes, more people, and a coy chastity. What was once a one-set, three-character production now boasts Wayne Marris, as many extras as the next epic, and intimate glimpses of New York ranging from a corner grocery store to the Pennsylvania Hotel...
...blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced with the best Spanish profanity, then action. But, said Diego solemnly: "I insist on affirming that the incident holds no greater importance than those common ordinary things we see daily on the streets of Mexico arising out of difficulties of transit...
Player interviews were granted by playing-manager Carodny for the first time this year. He himself permitted his usual taciturnity to give way to a mellow expansiveness in summarizing the game: "Sic transit..." he smiled coyly...