Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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situation has been complicated Cambridge's 25-year old ordinance prohibiting parking on city streets for more than one hour between the hours of two and six a.m., or, in effect, banning overnight parking the city streets...
...within the University's bounds. Alternate-side alternate-night parking has long been advocated as a partial solution of the no-parking-on-the-streets-at-night problem, for it would allow for street cleaning and snow removal, two of the reasons the present no-parking ordinance is in effect...
...emphasizing the biographical notes about contributors, the new Advocate reader will not receive the usual warning of "Mother Advocate welcomes to her bosom." However, the reader will probably be stopped by the first story in the issue, John Mautner's An Enchantment, which very likely will not produce that effect in the reader. The story, as well as its component parts, partakes of a diarrheic length. If the author is interested in attracting readers, he should take the advice he offers almost midway through the story... "but enough is enough! This is not a brochure for a hiking club...
...dust-raising quarrel with the State Department. Airmen charge that State's Office of Transport and Communications, the branch responsible for working out air agreements, is dispensing U.S. routes to foreign operators with far too lavish a hand, and getting little-or nothing-in return. The cumulative effect, say the lines, is that while U.S.-flag carriers flew 80% of all transatlantic traffic in 1947, today they account for slightly less than 50%, even though almost 70% of all passengers are U.S. citizens...
...event, says the State Department, the mere granting of routes does not mean an immediate, full-scale competitive attack on U.S. carriers. Of the 62 agreements between the U.S. and foreign nations, 32 have still not been put into action, and many will probably never take effect because of the cost of setting up an airline. But this is one argument that really riles U.S. airlines. While it is true that the airline business is getting more expensive, the fact that international airlines are also instruments of national prestige means that every nation, big or little, wants one, and that...