Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five days of hesitation, in evident fear of a people who so recently had proved desperate and courageous enough to stand against Soviet tanks, the Reds at week's end abruptly shut off all highway and rail traffic to Berlin from five East German provinces. That effectively halted the hungry invasion of West Berlin: lines dropped to a trickle. But East German railroad men reported angry mobs at stations all along their route, storming the ticket offices, and clashing helplessly with armed troops and club-wielding cops...
Truck schedules are often set with little regard for the speed laws. In California, a truck obeying all speed and traffic regulations would need 15 hours to drive the 400 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles, yet the normal schedule of most trucking lines is ten or twelve hours. Last month California's logging truckers, who have been overloading by as much as 4,000 Ibs., showed their contempt for a new program to enforce legal weight limitations by "picketing" state weighing stations with their trucks and blocking the roads...
...cities and along the open roads of the U.S., trucks have long been such an extra traffic hazard that it has even been suggested that the trucking industry raise funds for an entire new system of roads for itself. In Boston, for example, the truck-snarled traffic is so bad that a new express road is referred to laughingly as "a new, fast link between two bottlenecks...
Power of the Press. In Rushville, Neb., the Sheridan County Star reported: "Mayor Hank Jansen has instructed Police Chief Lester Jensen to give no tickets for any traffic violation," three weeks later reported that its editor, Phil Gottschalk, had been fined $1 and costs for improper parking...
...Zworykin's automatic highway, each traffic lane has a wire cable buried in the paving down its middle. Carrying an alternating current, it will serve as a guide, like the rails of a railroad. Electronic devices on each car feel for the buried cable and make the power steering system keep the car centerd over...