Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bareheaded. Trouble broke into the open when members of the Ways & Means Committee appeared before the House traffic cop, the Rules Committee. Tennessee's Democratic Representative Jere Cooper, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee and longtime advocate of reciprocal trade, briefly explained the bill, emphasized its moderation, promised that "there will be no drastic tariff reducing." Cooper asked for the "usual and customary" closed rule, i.e., one that would bar amendments on the House floor but would permit a motion to send the bill back to committee for rewriting...
...Stalin's order. Nikolai Bulganin. rising executive, was elected chairman of the Moscow Soviet-for six years he was in effect mayor of Moscow (his successor:Nikita Khrushchev). Bulganin traveled abroad, bringing back such improvements as a fleet of trolley buses, a manual of French traffic 20 signals and an order for natty white gloves for Moscow's traffic cops...
...unkind enough to stress the fact that Rome's long-dreamed-of subway was a mere seven miles long (only 3^ miles of it underground) and apparently designed to carry its passengers from nowhere to nowhere. Built well away from the heart of the city where the real traffic congestion lies, its ten stations (with such impressive names as Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World's Fair...
...were not for financing help from local businessmen, plus favorable land deals in both Philadelphia and New Haven, Henderson would not even now be building a hotel. He thinks the cost per room is too high for the rates the traffic will bear. But in the next few years Henderson expects to see "a rash of new hotels" in the U.S. Says he: "With the population growth and the increasing patronage of hotels, the price per room tends to rise, and will soon reach a point at which a hotel builder can go in, do his own financing and make...
There are ten evacuation routes from Cambridge to the north and west and 15 gathering points in the City, Burke said. All traffic would be one-way and though cars could enter at any point, none could cross over or switch routes...