Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first show. Since the Brattle lets out at 7:30 you should have time for a bite to eat before leaving for the Exeter, arriving there at 9:00 and missing the short subjects, which definitely should be missed. Maigret ends at 11:00, and with luck on the traffic lights you can be back in Cambridge by 11:15, just in time for Jack Paar...
...Window. That afternoon, in chill, gusty weather, he slipped out of the embassy unannounced for a two-hour, three-mile stroll. State Department security men had to hustle to catch up, and got several sharp jolts. Seemingly a stranger to red lights, Mikoyan blithely walked across streets against traffic, brought cars to a screaming halt. On Fifteenth Street, a block from the White House, a heavy gust toppled a street light a few feet from Mikoyan, showering glass splinters around...
...Absolute Chaos." The battle of the airlines raised havoc with holiday traffic. T.W.A., which put on 85 extra sections to carry the Christmas overflow, said its ticket counters at New York's Idlewild Airport were "absolute chaos." United Air Lines flights were booked solidly for ten days in advance. National Airlines was flying 4,000 passengers daily-double its normal load-to and from Miami, some of them in the 707 jet that it has leased from Pan American. National leased eight other planes from such faraway carriers as Hawaiian Airlines, put employees on six-and seven-day weeks...
...years, air freight, parcel post, bus and truck lines have cut into the Railway Express business. (To pick up 100 Ibs. of furniture in New York City and deliver it in Chicago via Railway Express costs $12.26 v. $4.60 on a private trucking line.) The agency's traffic declined from 193.1 million shipments in 1947 to 73.5 million in 1957, and the downtrend continued in 1958. Revenues dwindled from $428 million in 1947 to $358 million in 1957 despite eleven rate increases...
...Central's Perlman has his mind set on "a fresh approach." Possible solutions: turn the express business over to private freight forwarders, who could use piggyback service coordinating rail and road traffic, or let the Government take over express as parcel post...