Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington this week Texas Senator Price Daniel reported on the findings of a seven-month scrutiny by a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee into narcotics addiction and illicit drug traffic in the U.S. It was the first nationwide investigation of the problem, and the Daniel subcommittee heard 345 witnesses, including many addicts and smugglers, for a total of 8,667 pages of testimony. The subcommittee dredged up some hideous and alarming facts. Items: ¶The U.S. now has more drug addicts (60,000) than all other Western nations combined. In the past three years the Federal Bureau of Narcotics has compiled...
...Picked up by police at a race track, Joe, along with two kinsmen, George Lee and George Adams, was haled into court as a scofflaw, a term which New York City's Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh uses to describe the many New Yorkers who habitually dispose of traffic tickets by tearing them up.* Magistrate Murtagh, who has long been waging bitter war on scofflawry, imposed upon Lee (118 unpaid tickets) a $5,900 fine or 590 days in jail and Adams (54 unpaid tickets) a $2,700 fine or 270 days in jail. Then, recollecting that New York...
...advantages of this arrangement immediately became clear to Big Joe Uwanawich, who was charged with 51 traffic violations, including demolition of a fire hydrant with his Cadillac. "Judge," said he, "I will try to bring in all the Uwanawiches I can find. Even the ones out of town. By the way, Judge, do you want Miller Uwanawich...
Sunny Side. Wherever the Americans went, Russians gathered to stare, creating traffic jams. Traffic was blocked for a mile when 1,000 Russians surrounded Earl Jackson (who alternates as Sportin' Life) and Helen Thigpen (Serena), out for a stroll, with Jackson wearing cowboy boots, an Argentine nutria coat and hat, and custom-made pigskin gloves equipped with four holes through which his six emerald-and-diamond rings glittered...
...Police Lieut. Frank Wells drove around town all day looking for a motorist to whom he could present a $100 safe-driving award, finally spotted a likely candidate at 10:30 p.m., discovered, after trying to press the award on him, that he had been convicted of four traffic violations last year...