Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stokes began to match Taft detail for detail. He promised to combat the crime rate (up 14% last year) by increasing the police patrol-car force one-third, expand the airport with already available fill, eliminate a particular traffic bottleneck on Baltic Road ("the Baltic Blockade"), which, conjectured Stokes, costs a 20-year commuter 100 days off his life. He announced plans for an inaugural ball to raise money for clothing for children of relief families. Even with a skillful advertising campaign, a large and capable biracial campaign staff and a regiment of 2,000 door knockers, Stokes...
...number of blue-collar workers. Well over 60% of all non-farm families own the homes they live in; in 1917, the figure was 40%. Almost 80% of U.S. families now own an automobile, and one in five families has at least two; in 1917 only 5% had a car. Only 1% of U.S. farms was electrified in 1917; today more than 99% of farms and all other homes have Edison's bulb, not to mention Sarnoff's tube...
...governing the country. Decisions have got to be made, perhaps unpopular, but we shall make them. The more unpopular they are, the more we shall make. At last we know where we are going and can see the end of the road." With that, the scene shifts to a car trundling down a beach and plopping ignominiously into the water...
Automakers have had a bad year all over Europe-except in Italy. There, auto-industry sales in the first nine months of 1967 were up 17% over last year's record business. Just seven years ago, there was only one car for every 25 Italians; by the end of this year, there will be one for every seven. The exasperating urban traffic jam has become a national horror. Historic piazzas have been turned into huge parking lots. Ancient Roman roads are being lined with more and more service stations. From Milan in the north to Messina in the south...
...Harvard University Police now have the decals to be issued to the Non-Resident Students enrolled in the University. According to the Massachusetts Law each Non-Resident Student must have the decal attached to their car by the 27 November...