Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high spots, the Nixon machine also manages to avoid dangerous pot holes and slippery curves. Speeches tend toward the platitudinous and noncontroversial. To solve the drug problem, Nixon said he would triple the number of customs agents, review smuggling laws, and work to establish international commissions to stop traffic in narcotics. All were reasonable enough proposals but they seemed like mild medicine indeed for the devastating plague that Nixon talked about...
Last Monday, Sullivan was at City Traffic Director Robert E. Rudolph's side when Rudolph underwent one of his periodic interrogations by the Council. The manager helped to field some of the questions which Alfred E. Vellucci, a perennial Rudolph foe, directed toward the traffic director. Rudolph, who previously underwent the grillings solo, appeared calmer than usual...
...problem of empty seats persists. airlines may well have to cut back on some flights to increase operating efficiency. In this, they will be getting an extra push from the Federal Aviation Administration, which has tackled the delay problem by proposing traffic-flow limits at congested airports. Nowhere is the saturation of the market-and sky-more glaring than on the run between Chicago and New York, which, with 110 daily flights each way, is one of the world's most heavily traveled routes. United's president, George E. Keck, whose company is one of the route...
...John Crooker Jr., chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, is particularly concerned about local feeder lines. Recent jet purchases have enabled these carriers to increase their available seat miles (the number of seats multiplied by the distance flown) by 40% over the past year. However, they have increased passenger traffic by only 27%. Feeder lines, Crocker warns, may have committed themselves to "substantially more equipment than projected traffic warrants...
...industry as a whole confidently expects passenger traffic to begin catching up with airline capacity by 1970. Until that happens, the airlines will remain in a bind. Engaged in a fierce competitive battle to sell more seats, the industry has been spending lavishly on promotion gimmicks. The results have been mixed. Braniff International, one of the few major carriers to show an earnings increase this year, squeezes its extra mileage in large part from the ideas of Ad Gal Mary Wells (now the wife of Braniff President Harding Lawrence), who dressed stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms and painted planes...