Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight back," he cabled, "I got a glimpse of highway battle-a peasant village burning furiously, shells bursting in the paddies, the artillery fire directed by an observation plane circling overhead. Like traffic waiting for a train to pass, long lines of cars stretched from points about two miles apart where they had been stopped by troops." Shortly thereafter Mecklin was to report at firsthand just such a highway battle, typical of IndoChina's hit-and-run war. Accompanying General Rene Cogny, he took part in an inspection tour of Namdinh and Binh-luc. The following day, Mecklin risked...
...bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall, the small, elfin man with the face like a melancholy Harpo Marx, was having his first one-man show in seven years...
Perlman also developed a "junior board" of bright young employees to keep a constant check on all operations and to make recommendations directly to top management. As a result of his improvements-and war traffic-the road came out of bankruptcy in 1946. After 76 years in which not a nickel was paid in dividends, the railroad made its first payments in 1947. Last year it paid $6 plus a 50% stock dividend on earnings of $14.79 a share...
...Launching a fund to preserve historic churches in Britain, Prime Minister Churchill dispatched Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister and three other runners to dash through London's traffic in their track suits delivering checks to different churches...
...piggybacking should not take business away from the truckers. The railroads will simply charge them a fee for handling the long-haul shipments that wear out truckers' equipment and boost their costs. For their part, the railroads will get some much-needed extra revenue. Says Erie's Traffic Vice President Harry W. Von Willer: "Trucks take only the kind of business they want. They skim off the cream. We can't live on milk. We want cream." The New York Central alone figures that piggybacking will boost its gross $80 million a year. To motorists, piggybacking...