Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Border only another kind of Mason-Dixon line. Scotland has full control of its own school system (rated better than England's), its own established church (Presbyterian) and its own legal system, which is based more on Roman law than on English Common Law. Marriage, divorce, drinking and traffic regulations are made in Scotland. Scottish banks issue their own currency, which is interchangeable with English pounds...
...identify and turn to in trouble, anger or pleasure the way they do to such dailies as the successful Milwaukee Journal or Scripps-Howard's moneymaking Cleveland Press. The city's dailies have given comparatively little continuing coverage to New York's trouble-ridden police department, traffic problems, housing conditions and soaring crime rate. Some of the papers are making tentative and erratic steps in that direction. But for the most part, in their frantic search for readers, New York's dailies have turned to black type, tricks and entertainment instead of the kind of journalism...
This week the safety hysteria reached a new pitch with the action of traffic officials in Westchester County, New York. In order better to propagate their gospel, they to make a short speech to each motorist as he drove up to the play booth. As they took the dime, they were to say, "This is president Eisenhower's safe driving day, so please be careful...
Illustrated Lecture. In Vaxjo, Sweden, while 500 people were gathered in a hall to hear a talk on traffic laws, police outside ticketed 40 of their automobiles for illegal parking...
These companies produce three out of every four automobiles and trucks made in this country; ship about seven-eights of all the finished steel; produce three-quarters of all the electric power generated; handle more than 90 per cent of all the railroad traffic; fly nine out of ten domestic revenue passenger miles; and refine 90 per cent of all the oil produced...