Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slums & Culture. As they move into statehood, Hawaiians have their share of juvenile delinquency, traffic snarls, slums and crime, but they also have an extraordinarily high literacy rate (more than 98%), a topflight university (coming soon: a $200,000 East-West Cultural Exchange Center), a fine art academy and a symphony orchestra; and bustling new suburban complexes, studded with ranch houses. They appreciate some of the typical social aspects of U.S. mainland life as well: they love baseball, guzzle more soda pop and eat more hot dogs than the people of any other state...
...Marble Arch. Added the Daily Mail, tongue only a trifle in cheek: Who knows? Someone might even find a way to improve the current travel time between Arch and Arc, which now averages about three hours: 1 hr. 5 min. by airliners, 1hr. 55 min. in customs and traffic-crawling airport buses...
...hopped a plane from Croydon to Le Touquet, on the English Channel, then ran most of the 135 miles to Paris, sipping fruit juice and munching grass along the way. One competitor used souped-up power lawnmowers to and from his plane; another, wise to the ways of city traffic, tried roller skates, but did not do too well. Ace Racer Stirling Moss hopped into a Renault-Dauphine, roared out to the airport, put his car on a Silver City Airways "carferry," landed at Le Bourget and zipped into Paris...
RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY will continue operation because New York Central, the largest stockholder, reversed a previous decision to withdraw. Broad reorganization plan to change the agency's payment method and improve traffic routing was unanimously approved by 178 member railroads...
...build up this traffic, Bremen V offers such inducements as a secretarial pool and a super-health service featuring curative treatment for all forms of "manager's sickness." The company is asking German businessmen: "Are you important enough to your business to travel by ship?" Evidently, Bertram himself has just graduated to that class. This is fast-flying Bertram's first round-trip ship crossing since...