Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that to a one-day delay in delivery of the magazine to readers. P&D had lined up additional presses at our Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles plants, to boost production to a twice-normal total of 149,000 copies an hour. Its traffic men plotted split-second schedules of distribution by truck, rail, all available regular airline service, and ten chartered planes. Across the U.S. our own circulation men, including TIME Circulation Director Bernhard M. Auer and Newsstand Managers Mark Slater and W. Stuart Powers, and 100 Select Magazines, Inc. distributors stood by to speed deliveries...
...bobble anywhere could jam the whole program, it was that tight. Traffic men in Chicago, where more than half the issue was printed, sweated out a week of fog, but the weather cleared in time for the airlift. Deliveries went off on stepped-up schedule in all states except North and South Carolina. Copies destined for those states were held up when an Eastern Airlines plane ran into a flight of ducks, damaged its tail and had to return to Chicago...
Lehman said last night that he had also written to the Traffic Commission...
...same time, Captain of Traffic Edward F. Tierney pointed out that city police were instructed to report to the University all unregistered student cars which they towed in. "Students can charge off their tickets and fines as cheap rent," Tierney said...
...speed of which the airplane was capable at the assigned altitude. No one expected him to do as well as that. The chances were as heavily against it as if he had scheduled a record-breaking auto tour from New York to Los Angeles that depended on reaching every traffic light just when it turned green...