Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barred entry of Israeli ships to the Gulf of Aqaba. Today UNEF soldiers watch as some six vessels a month push up the gulf to unload in the small Israeli port of Elath. But neither the Israelis (who are grateful) nor the Arabs (who do nothing to prevent the traffic) are anxious to call attention to the situation...
...trouble is that little except diligence seems left of Pundit Lerner once the prejudice is gone. His middle-of-the-road stance leaves him not only free of bias but bereft of viewpoint. The middle of the road is a good place to be hit by the traffic of history, but a poor place to gauge its destination...
...earlier estimates of 6,100,000 new cars next year. They sold about 5,800,000 in 1957 and at year's end estimated sales of about 5,500,000 in 1958. As for the troubled railroads, they will see still another 5% to 7% drop in passenger traffic, while freight car loadings will show a continuing, but smaller (less than 10%), decline than in 1957. U.S. industry's headlong expansion will taper off in 1958; industry will invest only $34.5 billion in new plants and machines, down 7% from 1957. Autos, aluminum, machinery and many others...
Died. Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, 86, lawyer, longtime (1911-13, 1915-33) Republican Congressman from Missouri; in St. Louis. An ardent fighter against Prohibition during the '20s, "Lee" Dyer authored (in 1919) the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act which made interstate traffic in stolen autos a federal offense...
Brake Fade. In Los Angeles, Ramon Butler, 23, haled into traffic court for driving at 93 m.p.h.. ruefully told the judge that he tried to stop, "but my brakes didn't work...