Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into Mamie's black Chrysler Crown Imperial, and sagged back against a white pillow. In a moment his Secret Service driver wheeled the car out into Washington traffic, led the cavalcade of Secret Service men, photographers and reporters north through the Maryland countryside...
...gamble failed because Andrews had to waste time bluffing and cajoling his way past a discouraging amount of southbound traffic on the single-track line, and especially because the stubborn Confederate conductor of the captured train pursued him so closely on foot, handcar, switching engine and reversed locomotive that there was never time to do a thorough job of sabotage. Captured only ten miles from Chattanooga, Andrews and seven of his men were hanged, and the rest thrown into prison. All of the raiders were awarded the first Congressional Medals of Honor in U.S. history...
Useless piles of cement still stood high on Rangoon's docks, tying up harbor traffic and running up demurrage charges. In all, 124,000 tons of it had been unloaded on an inexperienced Burmese trade delegation by Communist negotiators in return for surplus rice (TIME, May 21). Ordinarily, the Burmese would have been delighted by India's offer last week to buy 50,000 tons...
...Last week West Berlin's Mayor Otto Suhr announced the opening of negotiations with East Berlin authorities on administrative matters. He emphasized that his government was the sole legal government of Greater Berlin but that things like traffic control, telephones, cemeteries had to be regulated...
...biting away at technical questions, e.g., maintenance facilities, fuel storage, radio navigation aids, passenger and baggage facilities. The Russians, who instigated the talks and appear willing to grant berthing privileges in other cities of the U.S.S.R., invited Pan Am to dispatch its top technicians to Moscow and settle other traffic problems on the spot...