Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crazy race to get somewhere (where, nobody knows). Upper highways, level highways, underground highways, tunnels, bridges connecting island with cities, suburbs with suburbs, states with states-all with hundreds of signs: "Keep to the left . . . Pay toll here . . . Pay toll there . . . Stop . . . Slow . . . Minimum speed . . . Maximum speed . . .Traffic merging . . . Low clearance." Watch for this; watch for that; unlawful to do this; unlawful to do that-and millions of human beings gracefully obeying all of these signs...
McCarthy's investigators found that, since the beginning of the Korean war, some 450 Western-flag vessels have made 2,000 trips to Chinese ports. Exactly what they carried is anybody's guess. There have been some flagrant examples, however, of traffic in strategic materials. Several ships, after delivering U.S. cargoes of Mutual Security Agency material to Formosa, on later voyages transported oil to China. The most damaging series of shipments is the traffic in natural rubber now going on between Ceylon and China. In return for rice, Ceylon has agreed to send the Chinese 50,000 tons...
...Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges, the Senate's temporary president, was deep in thought after leaving a conference with President Eisenhower, sauntered out into streaming traffic three blocks from the White House, and was bowled over by a passing car. He was hurried to a hospital, where doctors found a few bruises, no broken bones...
Such huge new developments are the logical outgrowth of the traffic jams, parking woes, and decaying rapid-transit systems that are choking U.S. cities. The shopping centers first sprung up haphazardly around supermarkets. Now they cluster around department stores and have become big, new "one-stop"' shopping centers. They are informal (women in slacks cause no raised eyebrows), have day nurseries for children, and generally stay open until 9 at night six days a week. They are the modern bazaar, where whole families can not only do their buying together but have an evening...
Pretty Precise. In Tokyo, during National Safety Week, a group of garage owners issued warning leaflets to U.S. drivers: "Traffic rules help your safety . . . is easy to speed upside down on this road so that the traffic accident wants to break out oftenly. Prease drive in safety and to avoid a miserable accident . . . prease come again...