Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect the switch, which had, of course, to be accomplished in one week, the staff of our Chicago traffic department worked seven weeks on such preliminary steps as making new address plates for the independent wholesalers and changing dispatch schedules and routings on truck, rail and air lines. When switchover week came, our magazines were sent in 2,200 shipments to the wholesalers for distribution to some 100,000 newsstands. W. A. Rogers, president of S-M, which had never before handled weekly magazines, called the switch "miraculous." Said TIME'S traffic manager, W. A. Evans...
...Galloway were trying to cross through a slow-moving line of traffic, when one car, a new Chevrolet, allegedly speeded up to prevent their passage and almost hit Galloway...
...Angeles came down last week with the worst case of that chronic big-city ailment, smog. Though usually its immediate effects are only smarting eyes and sore throats, smog can have serious indirect consequences, including traffic accidents, respiratory trouble, possible (though not proved) influence on lung cancer. Scientists measure the strength of a smog bout by the amount of ozone in the air. If the ozone count ever reaches 1.5 parts per million, public health officials fear disaster. The Los Angeles smog last week reached 0.90. California's Governor Goodwin Knight stood ready to declare the city a disaster...
Married. Milton Eisenhower Jr., 25, Pan American Airways traffic analyst, nephew of Dwight Eisenhower, son of Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State University; and Sally Ann Booth, 22, schoolteacher; in Florala...
...Traffic Lane. In Wells, Nev., after complaining to the city council of being badgered by strangers for directions to the local red-light district, townspeople got the city fathers to install directional signs, charge them to the bawdyhouse proprietors...