Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placid, two-ton rhinoceros escaped briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...
...Your article was good, but why do you suggest that all of the people moved out there to escape the smog and traffic here in Los Angeles? You know darn well that New York City has as much smoke and traffic as we do. And when you wrote of the desert, why didn't you tell about the sand storms and the wind that blows and blows each night, and that terrible heat-like a blowtorch...
...swarming crowds and the dusty trees along the Champs-Elysées. Never had the Folies-Bergère been more crowded. At the Louvre, tourists lined up in long, patient queues to stare at the Victory of Samothrace and the Mona Lisa. Around the Place de la Concorde, traffic whirled wildly as ever, but the license plates on the cars were predominantly Swiss, Italian, German, British, Danish, Dutch and U.S. The chattering voices in the cafes were British, American, Belgian, German-but not French. The locals had left the city to the invaders. In August, France is "en vacances...
...date have accomplished little. Dallas left the off-street parking job to the parking companies. In four years, they boosted spaces almost 50%, but they still cannot keep up with the 270,445 cars that roll into the city every day. The twin problems of parking and downtown traffic are speeding the nation's flight to the suburbs...
Most parking experts feel that cities can no longer permit real-estate men to put up new skyscrapers and huge apartments and let somebody else worry about the traffic and parking problems they bring. It looks as if the time will soon come when all big cities will have to follow Los Angeles' example and force builders to include parking facilities in new construction...