Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine Seconds to See. As projected, the Ohio Turnpike would have startled U.S. motorists with a big switch: fast cars in the outside right lane and slow traffic in the left lanes, and service facilities on the center strip rather than the roadsides. The commission turned down these innovations. As built, the turnpike is simply an ordinary, superb superhighway...
Airline passengers who like to take a drink aloft may soon have their spirits dashed. Pilot, steward and stewardess unions have all passed stern anti-liquor resolutions. And Massachusetts Congressman Thomas J. Lane, arguing that tipsy passengers sometimes constitute a safety threat, plans to introduce a bill at the next session of Congress to make inflight liquor service a federal offense. Last week Harold L. Pearson, president of the industry's Air Transport Association, said he had been warned by the Civil Aeronautics Board that liquor-pouring airlines may have to take "corrective steps," sent airline presidents a proposed...
...Mirror. London in Hogarth's age was a smallish city, as statistics go now. It was a place where the procession to the pillory of a popular prostitute (like Moll Hervey, who was set up at the Blackamoor's Head and Sadler's Arms in Hedge Lane) or an unpopular madam (like Mother Needham of Park Place, St. James's) might bring out a bigger crowd than a coronation. Londoners were a people who had yet to regard understatement as a virtue or overdrinking as a vice...
...Traffic Lane. In Wells, Nev., after complaining to the city council of being badgered by strangers for directions to the local red-light district, townspeople got the city fathers to install directional signs, charge them to the bawdyhouse proprietors...
...Ride with Godiva. Busy as ever at Holloman, Bachelor Stapp still manages to lead his private version of the good life. He has bought a three-bedroom home at 300 Lovers Lane in nearby Alamogordo, where he lives alone and lumps it. He refuses to own a television set ("I am not ready for intellectual suicide"). His principal indulgence is some excellent hi-fi equipment...