Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...
Realizing that homing Americans (some 75% of Shannon's westbound traffic) are often pinched for cash, the shop in 1954 started a mail-order business that allows tourists to bring in their purchases duty-free up to six months after their arrival in the U.S. Top-selling items: Irish whisky (50,000 gals, in 1955), French perfumes, German cameras (1,000 a month), Swiss watches, and American cigarettes at $1.40 a carton. Last week, with 90,000 mail-order catalogues floating through Europe and the U.S., Shannon started expanding its counter space for the second time. Said...
...endorsement of Egyptian sovereignty, finds itself for the first time face to face with a piece of "anticolonialism" that could hurt it as sorely as it could hurt the powers west of Suez. Since most of India's trade with Europe moves via Suez, any interference with canal traffic or an increase in canal rates would play hob with India's new five-year plan. Even more disturbing to India is the prospect that if Nasser were to fall, Egypt (and the canal) might fall into the hands of an orthodox Moslem government that would ally itself with...
Pedal Extremity. In Manhattan, chasing a suspicious-looking bicyclist, Detective John Keeney saw his quarry slipping away as the patrol car jammed in traffic, grabbed a delivery boy's bicycle, nabbed Bicycle Thief Camelio Vanterpool 35 blocks from where the chase started...
Eliot Youman, brother of Lowell Youman, Summer School Student who was injured last Wednesday, August 8, in a traffic accident on Massachusetts Avenue, requests that anyone who saw the accident or was at the scene immediately afterwards get in touch with him at Hollis 17 or with the Summer School office in Weld Hall. The accident took place at approximately 10 a.m. in front of the Widener Gate...