Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rockefeller Plaza skating rink. As a boy, Garfinkle helped support his widowed mother by selling papers to Staten Island ferry passengers, built up a big independent newsstand network along the East Coast. He will try to fatten sales by reorganizing magazine distribution and reaching for new outlets along traffic-heavy superhighways...
...Minister of Poland) aboard three special Pullman cars. During a stopover in Chicago, he went rubbernecking, toured the city for five hours. Along Lake Shore Drive,, he suddenly left his car to walk for a while, then just as suddenly crossed the drive in the midst of rush-hour traffic. Automobiles were tied up for miles as his motorcade and police escort jockeyed through an illegal U-turn to keep up with the wandering diplomat...
...German routes, said U.S. air men, would hurt many U.S. carriers, with only a few lines reaping a real benefit in return, would eventually mean increased U.S. subsidies. Both Eastern and National Airlines carry heavy Latin American traffic between Miami and New York, traffic that Lufthansa would cut into with its through flights. Snapped National's Vice President Alexander Hardy: "If Lufthansa should get a through route, we'd be right back on subsidy." Both Pan American and Braniff, which already get a $14.5 million subsidy on their Latin American runs, would need still higher subsidies if Lufthansa...
...this ancient pomp, there was one concession to scruffy present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers...
...Arabia I saw many slaves of my race. There are slave markets in all the big towns there. The slave traffic starts at sundown. The big chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course...