Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAILROADERS and truckers have barred no holds in their thumb-in-eye competition for more business. Over the years the truckers have managed to lure millions of dollars worth of freight traffic annually from the railroads. But as the trailer fleets have grown, truckers have brought on themselves the ire of motorists and tightening restrictions from states on trailer weights, size, etc. Railroaders, in turn, have seen their costs rise as business dropped. These pressures are forcing the two adversaries to end their fighting and compromise. The compromise: piggyback shipping, i.e., carrying loaded truck trailers on railroad flatcars...
...make a left turn at an intersection, Cohn kept on driving. Said Adams: "I. complained to Mr. Cohn. I said, 'You are just taking me away from the station,' and in a final fit of violence he stopped the car in the middle of four lanes of traffic and said, 'Get there however you can.' So I climbed out of the car in the middle of four lanes of traffic . . . ran across the street and jumped into a cab to try to make the 3:30 train." The committee room was breathless with suspense as Committee...
Last week the desacato law took some Argentines in the inland city of Cordoba far beyond the point of absurdity. Traffic Commissioner Antonio J. Lucco wrote an appeals court .judge a letter informing him that he was not entitled to the particular official license plate he was using on his car. Two days later, the court ordered Lucco arrested for desacato. Sentence: four days in jail. Offense: using "Esteemed Sir" as the salutation of the letter instead of "Your Excellency...
Reports from other segments of the economy indicated that a traffic jam was building up on the road back. Items: ¶ Sales in 44 chain stores and mail-order houses in April reversed an eight-month slide, pushed 4.4% higher than a year ago. ¶The stock market hit another new high; Dow-Jones industrials rose 1.20, to 322.50. ¶The bond market was booming. Connecticut's first $100 million bond issue for its $398 million toll expressway was snapped up by 250 investment bankers. The Treasury Department offered $2.2 billion in 4¼-year notes, got so many...
...James Messenger, 11 of Youngstown, Ohio, heard a car skidding toward him on an icy street but stood at his post to flag some other children back. As the children obeyed, the car hit Jimmy and broke both his legs. "Despite his pain," says his citation, "when a traffic officer reached him, James's first thought was to ask if the [other] children were safe...