Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...route. About the only straight roads on the island are those laid out atop old Roman roads like famed Watling Street, which makes a 160-mile run from London to Wales. In the days of gas rationing, austerity and fewer cars, it was possible for the lucky few to speed across country or through cities with ease. But last week, its inadequate road net jammed with 8,000,000 cars, 1,500,000 motorcycles and uncounted millions of bicycles, Britain was locked in a death struggle with a foe long familiar to the U.S., and even more deadly in densely...
Blitz Blessing. By actual clocking, the average speed possible for motorists to get across town ranges from 6 m.p.h. in Glasgow to 10 m.p.h. in London. At Worcester, where a dozen main roads converge on a single narrow bridge, lines of cars and trucks stretch as far as the eye can see. The Queensferry bridge over the River Dee-on the main route from the north in Wales-is barely wide enough for two lines of vehicles, and five-mile traffic jams are normal. The last piece of major road construction in London was built 50 years ago. A brand...
...million program that includes the opening this year of a new paper mill (owned jointly with Crown Zellerbach Corp.) in St. Francisville, La., a $6,000,000 research project at TIME Inc.'s Springdale (Conn.) laboratory to improve paper quality, new printing facilities in the East to speed distribution, and a new electronic system for handling subscription records...
Merritt Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of vertigo when he looked down from cliffside Palisades Park to the Hudson below...
...Automakers sold 503,890 cars in April -first half-million month since June 1957 -and they produced 578,825, the most since 1955. More important, the production rate was gaining speed, advanced 13^% from late April to early May, and was 74% ahead of last year's pace...