Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge, at least, the proverbial fast-disappearing pedestrian may soon be joined by a fast-disappearing motorist if cars multiply at the present extravagant rate while parking and traffic facilities remain virtually static...
Over half of Cambridge's streets are 27 feet or less wide, curb to curb. On many of these, parking on both sides and two-way traffic is permitted. The average car is six feet three inches wide, and, parked within one foot of the curb, leaves less than thirteen feet for two cars whose width totals twelve and one half feet to pass...
...Sooner the Better. Their shrewdest move was designed to force Adenauer to deal with the East German satellite in spite of his determination not to: they gave East Germany control of all civilian traffic and trade between West Germany and West Berlin, which must cross East German territory. "The sooner the politicians of Bonn and West Berlin realize that they cannot undermine the East German regime, the better it will be for the populace of West Berlin," said East Germany's Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht...
Should dope addicts get their dope free, from the Government? This course was suggested, as a way to kill the illegal drug traffic by extracting its profit motive, at hearings held in Manhattan last week by Texas Senator Price Daniel's Narcotics Subcommittee. The proposal split the experts-doctors and law enforcers-right down the middle. After the hearings they were farther apart than ever before. About all they had been able to agree on were the basic facts: ¶ Addiction is a growing, not a receding problem, 40 years after the Harrison Act made the peddling of narcotics...
...Melvin Vest, 21, got a one-to-five-year sentence, explained to the judge: "I thought my sister deserved to have a new car, and I figured if I stole the old one, they could buy a new one with the insurance money." One-Way Traffic. In Nanaimo, B.C., after he was fined $10 for drunkenness when police found him carrying on a one-sided conversation with a shapely store-window mannequin, Logger Lome Curtis explained that he was not trying to pick up the girl: he merely wanted to buy a boat ticket to Vancouver...