Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft suite confirmed, the meeting was an occasion for the first real show of strength for the 1952 Republican Convention. Across the street in the Fairmont Hotel, Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. set up Eisenhower headquarters on a smaller scale. California's Governor Earl Warren got little traffic either in his public suite at the Fairmont or his downtown hideout at the St. Francis. Candidate Harold Stassen arrived late, and few people bothered to seek him out. Taft himself stayed away, but reckoning by pamphlets, badges ("No Me-Too in 1952") and hotel rooms, he was unbeatable-until...
...propeller tips are stuck fast. Theoretically, there is a large, revetted parking area available for the planes-but a French farmer has built a solid house and two barns right in the middle of its taxiway. Through the U.S. base runs a public road always open to French civilian traffic...
Within 15 minutes of the Assembly vote that felled them, Premier René Pleven and his cabinet ministers sped to the presidential palace in their official black cars and submitted their resignations to President Vincent Auriol, getting into their usual traffic snarl in the courtyard. Then they rushed back to carry on their cabinet assignments as before, until a new cabinet emerged...
...anywhere outside the U.S. Land at its financial core, the bank-packed downtown Triangle, sells for as much as Wall Street real estate. Modern buildings are pulled down to make way for bigger skyscrapers. On the average, a new building is finished every 50 minutes the year round. Air traffic is greater than that of London Airport. Though broad boulevards have been hacked through the city to channel the swelling flow of workers and shoppers, traffic congestion gets worse & worse. Sáo Paulo has 15,000 industrial plants and millionaires' mansions such as the U.S. has not seen...
Candidate for Honors. In Seattle, a driver explained to Police Captain R.W. Zottman why he had been driving at 60 m.p.h. on a slippery city street: "I was listening to a traffic safety radio program, and when the announcer asked, 'Will you be America's millionth traffic victim?' I just forgot where I was and started going faster...