Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create big surpluses for South Viet Nam, Thailand and Taiwan. South Korea ran up a payments surplus of some $100 million last year, partly by exporting such military items as jungle boots, uniforms and galvanized steel for troops fighting in Viet Nam. One result is spreading prosperity-including even traffic jams -in Korean cities. Men are turning to woolen suits and many women are discarding their traditional chima and chogori (silk blouse and long skirt) for once scarce Western dresses. The silk goes into exports...
...consistent phenomenon of U.S. airlines has long been their remarkable expansion. The industry has grown an average of 14% a year since 1950, nearly twice as fast as runner-up electric utilities. In the year just ended, the airlines outdid themselves. Operating revenues rose 23% to $7 billion, and traffic gained 25% to 100 billion revenue passenger miles (the number of paying passengers multiplied by the distance flown). Yet the faster the airlines grow, the more they must strain for funds to finance tomorrow. Pan American World Airways last week obtained $180 million through 25-year notes placed with...
...Navy and Marines pounding away day after day last week at vital transportation points throughout North Viet Nam. There was no lack of targets: under a month of cloud cover, the North had repaired much of the damage from previous raids; freight cars were everywhere on the move, truck traffic had tripled...
...planes, but it has also become the last safe haven for Hanoi's remaining 14 MIGs. Momyer has little use for the upcoming holiday bombing pause, noting that last year the three-day pause for the Vietnamese New Year enabled Hanoi to move supplies equal to 47 days traffic under his raids...
...wanted to draw them into it instead of letting them stand around outside." Thus, though the city hall is a bastion, it abounds in entrances, ramps, staircases, and a huge central courtyard-all suitable, as Kallmann points out, for sit-ins. Lower levels, which will have the most traffic, are reserved for public business, contain windows at which citizens can file complaints, get licenses, argue over assessments, and register to vote. Slung through the belly of the building, with hooded windows projecting outward, are the ceremonial rooms: on one side, the city council chamber; on the other, overlooking nearby historic...