Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, a large share of the smuggling traffic-most of which moves down through Laos-has bought immunity from trouble by paying off gangs of former Nationalist Chinese soldiers...
Travelers at New York's Kennedy International Airport were hopping mad last week - hopping out of cars, hopping over fences, even taking gates off hinges in their frenzy to escape the colossal traffic jams. One motorist needed 45 minutes to drive the two miles from the airport's entrance to the Eastern Air Lines terminal. Another left Greenwich, Conn., early enough to reach Kennedy a full hour before his scheduled 8:30 p.m. Swissair departure, only to find himself at the end of an endless, motionless line of autos when he got to the field. Both missed their...
...airport was brand-new six years ago -and outmoded before the cement on its new runways was dry. Its single-entrance internal road system has been dubbed the "world's largest cul-de-sac," and last fall it suffered a monumental traffic tie-up similar to Kennedy's disaster last week. But things are about to change. The city has approved a $500 million program to expand the airport...
...down the Ho Chi Minh trail to fuel the Communist war in the South. In clear terms, Mc-Namara explained why. North Viet Nam has, he said, such a highly diversified transportation system, ranging from sampans to bicycles, that even at the present level of bombing, "the volume of traffic it is now required to carry, in relation to its capacity, is small." It is surprisingly small: "Intelligence estimates suggest that the quantity of externally supplied material, other than food, required to support the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in South Viet Nam at about their current level...
Postwar Windfall. Braving such obstacles, Lusteveco deploys a fleet of 500 trucks on land, a small coastal navy of 16 tankers, 107 tugs and 448 barges at sea, and a string of modern warehouses at major ports. The company moves 80% of the country's vital interisland traffic: home-grown timber, coconut and sugar on its way to port for overseas markets; steel, machinery and other imports headed from Luzon to other parts of the nation. Lusteveco stevedores shoulder nearly all the Philippines' foreign trade borne by ships, which may be docked by Lusteveco tugs, provisioned at Lusteveco...