Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major U.S. airlines were at a standstill. Eastern Air Lines, largest operator on north-south air routes, has been strikebound since the flight engineers' union walked out Nov. 24 in a disagreement over jet crew makeup. With airline flights 60% of normal, and the first of the holiday traffic on the move, thousands of travelers last week milled around terminals, reached destinations by circuitous routes and even by railroads and buses. The irony of it all: just when U.S. commercial aviation was entering a brand-new era, it was being assailed by the kind of featherbedding demands and jurisdictional...
...instrument by the famed Cremona fiddlemaker. The supply, while never plentiful, has surprisingly never been exhausted, and last week the proceedings of a Swiss court pointed to the reason why: buyers of supposed Strads and other instruments with great Cremona labels have been the victims of a traffic in fake violins...
...market also proved that the new economy is so big and so diverse that many industries once considered the driving forces can slow down without bringing a traffic jam throughout business. The tobacco companies, the supermarket chains, drug and electronics companies all had record or near-record years despite recession. Investors reacted by driving P. Lorillard up 175% to 89 at the high; General Foods went from 50¼ to 79½ Federated Department Stores from 30⅛ to 54¾ Pfizer, Merck. Schering, and Carter Products posted 68% to 114% gains. One spectacular performer riding a recession boom: Zenith...
Captain Caution. In Cleveland, arrested 13 times in 14 days for speeding (4), passing red lights (2), driving on the wrong side of the street (3), driving against traffic on a one-way street (3), and making an improper turn (1), J. D. Grant confidently told a judge: "Sure, I crash red lights-but I always look both ways...
...extra cars will be added to the regular holiday runs of the New Haven Railroad even in the event of a strike or worse weather conditions. A representative admitted "the situation is terrible" and could become a "holocaust" if traffic is diverted from the airlines to the N.Y.N.H. & H. R.R. He claimed costs and equipment do not allow an increase in cars even if desperately needed...