Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thick traffic of the working-class suburb of Catia, the caravan slowed to a crawl, then halted. Several hundred rioters came running. They ripped the U.S. and Venezuelan flags from Nixon's car, pounded the doors with clubs, pipes, brass artillery-shell cases. Grapefruit-sized stones smashed against the safety glass until slivers began flying through the inside of the car. A shower of glass struck Nixon, one piece lodging in his temple near his right eye (it was easily removed...
...Adios. Next afternoon Venezuelan forces cleared the route to the airport of all traffic, and a bulletproof limousine convoyed by six truckloads of armed troops swung through the city with Nixon safely inside. At the Vice President's feet lay two carbines and four bright red tear-gas bombs...
NIGHT TURNPIKE TOLLS at cut rates are boosting traffic and revenues on Florida's 108-mile Sunshine State Parkway from Miami to Fort Pierce. After state slashed tolls for after-dark travel from $2.40 to $1.75 per car, income rose...
...modern fleets, rank among the world's finest airlines, earn valuable foreign exchange and promote much tourism for their mother nations. Flying to the U.S. and South America, Japan Air Lines serves a booming nation of 90 million people, not only generates most of its own international traffic but has such an effective domestic network that it operates without subsidy. Australia's globe-circling Qantas gets heavy traffic from an area in the midst of rapid economic development, performs a real economic service as a lifeline to the rest of the wold...
...stay out of the international big leagues and concentrate on regional feeder operations where they can perform a real economic service. A prime example is Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (48% British Overseas Airways Corp. owned), which operates a profitable Viscount service throughout the Arab world-where air traffic increases 30% annually (world increase: 13%)-and has no ambitions beyond operating as a feeder service. A second solution for small lines would be to merge with others to form one major international unit along the lines of Scandinavia's SAS, which has enough traffic, capital and competitive know...