Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch on a signal box (see cut), he formally opened a new 163-mile, electronically regulated stretch of double track between Cleveland and Buffalo. With the new system, the longest in the U.S., only two men seated before a light-studded control panel at Erie can automatically control all traffic between Cleveland and Buffalo...
...Reversing the flow of Middle East traffic, President Eisenhower last week picked former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James Prioleau Richards, 62, as a $20,000-a-year special assistant, gave him the chairmanship of a special U.S. mission to explain Eisenhower foreign policy to Middle Eastern nations. South Carolinian Richards, who retired from Congress last week after 23 years in the House, has a formidable reputation on Capitol Hill, at the White House and abroad: last year he led a successful fight to trim $1 billion from the foreign aid bill, repeatedly called on the Administration to produce...
...regime's worst trouble was its gradually deteriorating economic situation. Though Egypt has found markets for most of its basic cotton crop, these were mainly in Communist and neutral countries to which Egypt was already in debt. With tourist traffic cut to a trickle and all canal revenues blocked, the foreign-exchange shortage was approaching the crisis point. Business in Cairo was at a standstill, disrupted by the expulsion and departure under pressure of thousands of Jews and other foreigners. The middle class, hardest hit by the economic crush, began turning against the regime...
...Parking Miser. A parking meter that automatically flips its flag to "Expired" as soon as a car moves out was put on sale by the Traffic Master Co., Culver City, Calif. In a twelve-day test on two San Francisco streets, the device, which is operated by a photoelectric cell buried in the parking space, increased parking revenues 39.6% since the next car could not use unexpired time. Price: around $37.50, plus $10 for installation...
...Seaboard Air Line Railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line were still not enough, although three extra trains had been ample last year. Eastern Air Lines stepped up flights to 200 daily, with capacity for moving 13,800 sun seekers a day in and out of Miami, estimated an 18% traffic rise over last year...