Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to the Jolly Roger and pirates, I get seasick when the anchor goes up and I don't know the difference between a peashooter and a cap pistol. I am a legitimate exporter and nylon manufacturer, and the worst offense I have ever been guilty of was traffic violations...
Texas' Galveston, once a pirate hideout, has earned an equally robust reputation in recent years for freewheeling vice, gambling, prostitution and illegal liquor traffic. The Galveston papers, the morning News (circ. 17,510) and evening Tribune (circ. 11,909), both owned by 87-year-old Financier W. L. Moody Jr., do not get excited about it. They take the view that the wide-open situation is what Galveston wants; any change should come at the polls, not through their crusading. But their little brother and Galveston County neighbor, the Texas City Sun (circ. 4,573), which is also owned...
Woolman has another plan up for CAB approval-a merger with Northeast Airlines (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950). If approved, the merger will give him a route into New York, and a crack at the rich North-South traffic now enjoyed by Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines...
...Ford station wagon rolled slowly through the Brussels traffic, drew up in the Marolles quarter. Three men climbed out: a cleric, a middle-aged official and a young man in a brown raincoat. They looked at the miserable shelter of a rags-and-flowers merchant, walked on through one of the more squalid slums of Europe. In one street they met a group of children. "It's the King!" cried a child. "How do you know it's the King?" "It must be. He has such nice shoes." The children shyly touched the young man's raincoat...
...managed to salt away more savings in 1952 ($18.5 billion, $1.5 billion rise over '51). Never had the U.S. had so many jobs (62 million) and so little peacetime unemployment (1,700,000). Its prosperity was extravagantly symbolized by a Texan's wisecracking solution for Dallas' traffic problem: "Rule all Cadillacs off the street during rush hours." Answered a reader of the Dallas News: "If you did that, how would we working people get home...