Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of simple necessity," Cherington says. "It is becoming increasingly difficult for the University to continue in Cambridge. Traffic problems and lack of desirable land for expansion will only worsen over the years," he said...
...Down with Nehru's Tyranny!" Students bore Nehru's picture through the city, garlanded with old shoes, an extreme sign of disrespect to Hindus. By noon the mob had forced shops to close. broken the windows of the Indian bank, stoned school buses and stopped all traffic in Bunder Road, Karachi's main street. The East Pakistan legislature, not content with Governor Munshi's apologies, demanded that the governments of India and the U.S. formally ban the book...
...Marshes. The biggest waterway customer of all is the booming Gulf Coast oil industry, which last year shipped out some 25 million tons of petroleum products, more than half of all the waterway's traffic. From New Orleans' Harvey Lock southward, the water is lined solid with oil activity-war-weary landing craft being converted into tenders for offshore drilling rigs, big yards piled high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their...
...carting freight between the Great Lakes and the Eastern industrial area to turn a $7,900,000 profit last year, expects a 10% boost this year. The small (792 miles) D. & H. is also in good shape; through the Delaware & Hudson holding company it picked up 34% of its traffic, mostly from its own coal mines, netted $8,900,000 last year on a gross of $76.9 million. Only the 962-mile Lackawanna is in any semblance of trouble; a $7,500,000 flood-damage bill and heavy losses from its commuters (who fondly call it the "Delay, Linger & Wait...
...sure to profit by a merger. All three run parallel routes along sizable sections of track, could save millions in maintenance and tax charges by abandoning some sections, downgrading others. Since all three are dieselized, they would need less equipment, could shift engines from one section to another as traffic demanded, could also combine many duplicating services, from secretaries to freight yards...