Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch the presidential DC-6 Independence land after a four-hour trip from Washington. Kansas City shoppers hardly bothered to look as the President rode through town with his wife Bess and daughter Margaret. Their police escort and the driver of their maroon Lincoln dutifully stopped at all red traffic lights...
...corner of Harry Moore's bedroom. No one saw or heard him. FBI men, who checked painstakingly later, could tell by his tracks only that he was a long-striding man with small feet, who apparently got away by automobile and drove off in the stream of traffic flowing along U.S. Highway...
...even better in 1952. But they think that they have barely scratched the surface. R.C.A. alone has orders for microwave systems from the Arkansas Fish & Game Commission (to catch poachers fast), the Atomic Energy Commission (for remote-control experiments) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (for quick reporting of accidents, traffic jams and other road conditions...
Like the birds, vacationers fly south in the winter and north in the summer. No one follows their flight more closely than National Airlines President George T. Baker. His passenger traffic reaches a peak in winter on its main-line run from New York to Miami, but it slumps during the summer. Last week Baker made a deal to give National a big payload the year round and move it up from tenth to eighth largest U.S. airline. (It ranks an estimated fifth in net operating income among domestic airlines.) National will buy Colonial Airlines for $7 million worth...
Colonial's biggest business is in summer over its northern routes (see map). By merging, the lines would feed passengers into each other all the way from Havana, Cuba, equalize year-round traffic. CAB will probably approve the deal since it has been prodding Colonial to merge with another airline as a way out of its troubles. In 1951, Colonial pulled out of the red for the first time in five years with the help of a $13-per-ton-mile payment for carrying air mail v. 54? per ton mile to National operating on more profitable mail routes...