Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, everyone was trying to get in the de-emphasis battle. One jokester suggested that the Harvard-Yale game be played in the early morning, when there would be no traffic problems and when only true sport lovers would...
...More Traffic, Less Money. The turnpikes are the newest answer to highway congestion. The U.S., the most mobile and mechanized nation in the world, is wearing its roads out faster than it builds new ones. At the same time, the amount of its passenger and freight highway traffic keeps growing. In 16 years, the load on U.S. roads has more than doubled, from 518 billion ton-miles in 1936 to some 1.4 trillion ton-miles in 1951. And the number of vehicles has grown from 28 million to 52 million. But the U.S. is spending only $2.5 billion a year...
...Prudent Way. More & more states are discovering that one answer, where traffic is heavy enough, is to build roads that pay for themselves. Indiana and Illinois have tentatively outlined projects to extend the eastern super-highway route to Chicago; New York is building a 535-mile Manhattan-to-Buffalo throughway; Florida has plans for a 350-mile Jackson-ville-to-Miami speed road. Along with everything else, highway costs have been rising: Ohio's Turnpike will cost $1,300,000 per mile v. a mere $476,000 per mile for Pennsylvania's original mileage. Tolls are rising...
Piloting the Coal Queen, from Morgantown, W. Va. downstream (north) to Pittsburgh, took a little doing, what with pushing barges through the locks and threading through more traffic tonnage than passes through the Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some...
Meanwhile the Harvard Square Business Men's Association was campaigning to eliminate the subway kiosk. But when they discovered that having to walk from Central Square would drive way customers, the razing program went up in smoke. The rotunda increased traffic snarls and the CRIMSON noted that this was particularly dangerous for "untrained freshmen...