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Word: traffice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereupon he began barking up the Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: One Man's Meat | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...that would be open to inspection teams from the other country. In these areas, which would have no atomic installation but would have at least one port, one airfield, one railway terminal and some military forces, the inspection teams would be free to carry out aerial photography, watch all traffic and check on military installations. This plan, according to the U.S. theory, would be a quick means of getting disarmament started and of establishing mutual trust. It would also provide a kind of laboratory for the development of disarmament control techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Against the Odds | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...equal the Mobilgas marks. Not only are the cars tuned for a peak performance, but the drivers make test runs of the course, checking and timing for red lights, bad grades, etc. Young Alsbury did his preliminary homework so well that in the whole race, studded with 53 traffic lights, he hit not a single one that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Heavyweight Champions | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...miles of Ponce de Leon Avenue are rubber inserts in the pavement that respond to each vehicle passing over them. They report to a 2-by-3-ft. aluminum box packed with electronic equipment. The box is essentially an analogue computer whose electronic intelligence forms a detailed picture of traffic on the avenue. When the Atlanta Crackers' ball game ends, the computer knows it immediately from traffic flow, and tells secondary control boxes at the traffic lights to clear the way for homebound fans. The master control box allows for the side streets too, and does not hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Traffic Big Brother | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...transportation problem was not as serious in Saturday's 5.7 inch snowfall as in the harsher storms this month, however. Cambridge traffic was reported to be lighter than in earlier snows, and the MTA had all its lines running yesterday for the first time since March 16. Logan Airport was closed Saturday, but leading airlines announced normal service resumed since 5 a.m. yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saturday Snowstorm Causes Car Towing; Irish Cancel Parade | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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