Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock each morning Harry Truman is tooling his green-and-cream Royal Lancer Dodge through the heavy interurban traffic on Truman Road from Independence to his five-room office in Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank Building. He keeps three secretaries working full time, spends about $5,000 a month keeping up with the duties of an ex-President. All his expenses come out of his own pocket, but Truman was one of the few U.S. Presidents to save money in office, has since picked up some handsome fees, e.g., from LIFE and Doubleday for his bestselling memoirs, from...
...phantom deficit." According to Berge, the deficit "for the most part consists of costs which could not be avoided" even if the rails carried no passengers at all. The rails' $153,000-a-mile capital investments in bridges, yards, rails, for example, is needed for the freight traffic that accounts for 87% of the roads' revenue. Eliminating passenger traffic would therefore cut fixed costs by very little, but would cut out a margin of pure profit...
...more realistic formula for measuring passenger-traffic profit and loss, Berge suggests using actual out-of-pocket costs, i.e., subtracting from total passenger revenues only those costs directly connected with maintaining passenger traffic. On this basis the ICC's $4.8 billion passenger deficit between 1947 and 1954 would turn into a $486 million profit. Taking the most recent years, during which passenger revenues dropped, Berge found only a $1,000,000 loss in 1953 v. a $705 million ICC deficit, a $38 million loss in 1954 v. a claimed $670 million deficit...
...first church ever built in Rome to the glory of the Madonna. But with the procession over, the solemnity is at an end, and for two weeks the alleys of Trastevere echo to the bellowing of bawdy street songs as the Trasteverini give themselves over to abandoned enjoyment. All traffic stops as tray-bearing waiters hustle through streets jammed with the tables and chairs of the celebrators. And high above the confusion and gaiety ring out the bells of Trastevere's churches...
...called their children in from play one day last week, hustled them into cars and buses and off to the nearest schoolhouse. Three women pulled their total of seven kids from a swimming pool and hauled them off, still dripping, in bathing suits. In High Point an hour-long traffic jam developed around the Ray Street School. Reason for the activity: North Carolina, 47th among the states in fulfillment of polio vaccination goals, was staging a blitz campaign to get out in front. In Guilford County (pop. 209,000) alone, busy physicians donated their time to man 55 clinics...