Word: motorists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contend that despite tremendous improvement in highway design and traffic control, we are destined to prolonged congestion. These prophets conclude that a gain of 6,000,000 vehicles per year in the U.S. is too much to absorb. This is ridiculous, but it takes little to convince a disgruntled motorist that such prognostications are valid. Traffic is being handled more efficiently now than ever before, and this situation will continue to improve. Your constructive piece should alleviate many misapprehensions...
...days before. Parked near by was a pickup truck belonging to San Antonio Contractor Harold Flory, 50, who was fishing in the San Marcos River. Boggs killed Flory with a hammer, then rifled his pockets, and slipped the body into the river It was found there by a motorist who saw a fishing line running from the river to some bushes, tugged on it and, to his horror, pulled out Flory's battered corpse...
...building costs for these broad, eight-to 36-in.-thick roads average $1,141,000 per mile. Columbia Professor William Vickrey says that the "subsidy" on some expressways is as much as 10? per car-mile, roughly equal to the vehicle's operating cost. On balance, however, the motorist saves big sums in reduced operating and accident costs, saved time and lessened strain. The road-building money is extracted from the motorist himself, in taxes on fuel, tires, accessories and truck weight. In the Interstate system, which is supposed to cost $46.8 billion by the time it is finished...
...trap had been set for one of the nation's ten most wanted criminals. Lurking beside a crowded New York City parkway one noon last week were four busloads of police brass, 125 newsmen and a dozen patrolmen, including six cops in two prowl cars casing every passing motorist...
...example of shotgun justice," wrote Editor James Neal of Hamilton County's Noblesville (pop. 7,600) Daily Ledger. "If the past provides a good example, what will happen is that some kindly little old lady will spend the night in jail for driving too slow while some mad motorist charged with manslaughter will stall his trial right out of court...