Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traffic in bird-of-paradise plumes has been internationally banned since 1924, to prevent the extinction of the birds. Learning that Nepal badly needed to replace its worn-out royal plumes, the U.S. shipped over a package of 100 plumes that had been stored in New York City's American Museum of Natural History...
...room hotels are going up near San Juan to help the 300-room, 99%-occupied Caribe Hilton handle the expected $75 million-a-year tourist traffic. Laurance Rockefeller is putting $1,000,-ooo into a 72-room luxury hotel with an 18-hole golf course designed by famed Golf Architect Robert Trent Jones. And all over the island are the new factories...
...sensitivity which made her feel so deeply the shocks of her childhood was countered by a set of instincts as solid as an anvil. She took blows that would have smashed many people, and she cracked a little, but she did not fall apart. And always there was that traffic-jamming, production-stopping hunk of woman that the scared little girl inhabited...
...living rooms themselves, today's buyer wants a fireplace in a $10,000 house, whereas 87% of the $10.000 homes in the 1955 Labor Department survey had no fireplace. On the other hand, the great picture-window craze has been overdone. Too many picture windows face traffic-clogged streets or the neighbors' garbage cans...
...Birds. In Manhattan, Joseph Albanese was fined $10 in traffic court for unnecessary auto-horn blowing despite his explanation that his pet crow, Oleander, hopped on the steering wheel and tooted the horn...