Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unseen traffic cop is a radar meter. Of several brands the most commonly used is a 40-lb. aluminum-sheathed box with two sets of antennas and a price tag of $1,100.* It fits snugly into the rear of a prowl car. As a speeding car approaches, the meter's transmitting antenna sends out high-frequency radio waves that bounce off the car, change frequency and are picked up by the receiving antenna. The difference between the two frequencies tells the speed accurately (within 2 m.p.h.). (In a group of cars, the meter picks out the one that...
Despite the sound & fury, the radar meter was doing good work. Police were unanimous in praising the device. In Gary, Ind., traffic deaths have been cut from 39 by mid-November in 1952 to 17 this year -and police give radar meters full credit. "It's cut down the deaths tremendously," reported Colonel T. B. Birdson, Mississippi's Commissioner of Public Safety. "On the stretch between Clarksdale and the Tennessee state line, it's resulted in a 70% reduction of the death rate...
...Chinese are building all-weather, heavy-traffic roads across the mountains, linking their garrisons; they are opening Lhasa, the Forbidden City, to China proper and to Russia. Peking newspapers now reach Lhasa in ten days; before Mao they took several months. One 1,400-mile road starts from Sinkiang, at the edge of Russia, and curves through Tibet parallel to the Indian frontier (see map). From this strategic cord, side roads will point toward every major pass of the Himalayan mountains. The Chinese Communists are also laying down airfields in western Tibet, using Russian engineers and Russian equipment...
...York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment the suburban bus as well, and they are dutifully planning heliports to accommodate the new airborne traffic...
Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...