Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loud squeal of brakes, which ended in a car-crash on Memorial Drive outside of Winthrop House at 12 p.m. last night, drew a crowd of some 150 students. The accident was not serious, but a riotous humor developed as the crowd began to stop traffic on the Drive...
...touted sex difference, the Drs. Mills found none. Women in city, suburb and country had about the same lung-cancer rates as nonsmoking men in the same areas. They concluded that the rate appears lower in women because fewer pick the combination of heavy smoking and driving in heavy traffic...
...cigars doubles or triples his risk of lung cancer; "moderate" cigarette smoking (16-35 cigarettes a day) multiplies the risk by four to six: heavy cigarette smoking by ten to 20. However much he smokes, a man who drives 12,000 or more miles a year in heavy traffic is exposed to exhaust fumes that multiply his risk of lung cancer by as much as two or three. And the rate is doubled for those who live in smoke-polluted, downtown areas like Cincinnati's "Basin" district. A heavy-smoking cab driver who lives there multiplies his danger...
Round the Clock. A part-time inventor, Shield used the East Paterson store to try out his patented Food-O-Mat, a block of tiered ramps that feed cans and jars to customers by gravity and save up to 40% of floor space. To solve the traffic problem inside his stores, Shield broke the conventional supermarket pattern of long, parallel shelves and narrow aisles. For his new layout he had architects design short, boxy shelves, spot them in irregular arcs to create broad aisles and thereby eliminate bottlenecks for grocery carts...
Pause That Refreshes. In Westport, Conn., arrested for standing on the seat of his motorcycle as it ripped through Sunday traffic on the Merritt Parkway, Walter Buckner told a state patrolman: "I felt like stretching, but I didn't want to waste time stopping...