Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THOSE perplexing Argentines," U.S. -Ambassador James Bruce cried when he returned from Buenos Aires in 1949. The Argentines love soccer, bathtubs, the opera and gastronomy (even for a pretty senorita their customary compliment is: "What a pudding!"). They will not stand for traffic lights, and their stately capital has none. For a flamboyant decade the proud and cultured Argentines were ruled by a wastrel dictator. Now the bill has been presented, and a grim-lipped general who prizes honor and uprightness is struggling to repay the account. See HEMISPHERE, The Rocky Road Back...
...manipulating exchange rates, IAPI bought meat and grains from farmers at low prices, sold the commodities abroad for whatever the traffic would bear. In the famished postwar world, lAPI's profits were immense; it used the income to buy industrial machines and raw materials abroad for resale cheap to Peronista manufacturers. Industry-subsidized, tariff-protected and inefficient, but nonetheless industry-grew 63% between 1943 and 1956. Argentina began or expanded the production of chemicals, canned goods, paint, paper, machine tools, motorcycles, tires, tobacco, plastics, plywood, surgical instruments, steel furniture, motors, matches, cement, batteries, refrigerators, TV sets. At length industrial...
TURNPIKE BOOM is worrying Massachusetts. New 123-mile Massachusetts Turnpike got so much traffic on first Sunday that cars piled up for five miles at toll stations and exits...
...figures came as timely support for the new air traffic plan drafted by Presidential Adviser Edward P. Curtis, vice president of Eastman Kodak Co. and former Air Force major general. The Curtis report calls for an all-weather, 24-hour control of all planes above a certain altitude, which would, in effect, control every commercial plane. To get the program started, the Administration last month sent to Congress the Curtis proposal for a three-man Airways Modernization Board composed of an impartial chairman and representatives of the Defense and Commerce departments. The technology and much of the equipment are available...
...with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think of England...