Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third alarm, at 5:15, was caused by a faulty sprinkler system in one of the University Press buildings on University Road near Battle Square. Fire trucks blocked Mt. Auburn Street for almost 15 minutes, while evening traffic piled up as far as the Lampoon building...
Cambridge police handed out over 300 traffic tickets between 2 and 4 a.m. Saturday morning in the parking area around the Houses and were out again bright and early Sunday taking down license plate numbers. No Sunday tagging was reported however...
...Elmo Nichols, who asserted that "Freedom of the press has no better or more sincere advocate than I," had sentenced both to 20 days in jail, plus a $200 fine apiece for contempt of court. Reason: Judge Nichols objected to a series of articles the Constitution ran on Georgia traffic law enforcement, and a growing toll of highway accidents...
...articles, charged Judge Nichols, made false accusations against the county courts. As his own proof of one mistake, he produced a photo of a $25 bail bond put up by an out-of-state traffic violator, in Floyd's county seat of Rome, even though the Constitution had said there was "no record" of the case ever having been disposed...
...refrigerator plant, and Westinghouse to cut electric-range production by 20%. (General Electric had laid off 2,500 refrigerator workers the week before.) Factory sales of household washers were 33% below a year ago; furniture shipments were down 16% from a year ago. ¶Big trucking firms, whose traffic is a sensitive barometer of business activity, reported their shipments were anywhere from 10% to 40% below a year...