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BRANIFF International Airways, whose routes in the Midwest run north-south, is edging into the rich east-west passenger trade. Under a new agreement signed with United Air Lines, Braniff passengers bound for Portland and Seattle will not have to change planes at Denver; the same plane, with United crews, will continue on to the Pacific Northwest. In return, Braniff crews will take United planes from Denver to Dallas and Houston. The airline has a similar deal in the works with T.W.A. for through service to Los Angeles and San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...liquidating toll roads, like the successful Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes. Massachusetts, for example, will start one such $200 million cross-state toll highway by the end of this year; Kansas is considering a new superhighway from Kansas City to Wichita; Ohio is just now launching a $326 million east-west toll road to link up with the Pennsylvania Turnpike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The U.S. Plans for Its Future | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...EAST-West trade is steadily growing despite restrictions. New Zealand has quietly signed a deal to sell 500 tons of butter to Russia, and is dickering to ship even larger quantities of meat to Poland. Russian oil has begun to be sold in Italy, France and Argentina, and may soon be flowing in bigger quantities to Greece and half a dozen European countries currently negotiating barter agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 24, 1953 | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Tucked helplessly in an endlessly potential storm center of East-West politics, the amiable, ultranationalistic people of Burma need all the moral encouragement they can get. Last week Burma invited the U.S.'s ebullient uplifter Dale Carnegie to come and deliver a series of lectures on 1) courage, 2) systematic-mindedness, 3) noble character, 4) honesty, and 5) perseverance. He needs no introduction: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People has long been a bestseller in Burma; its translator is none other than Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Influential Translator | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

Flickering klieg lights lit the sky on one spot along an East-West Berlin frontier one night last week. American Movie Director Victor Vicas was shooting a film called No Way Back. The plot: boy soldier in the Soviet zone meets German girl, boy loves girl, boy and girl flee to freedom in the West. Cameras whirred, the "Red" leading man escaped the Vopo extras amidst a spatter of fake bullets, someone yelled "Cut!" and the director got ready for the next scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Boy Meets Freedom | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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