Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point of the new ordinance is a change in zoning laws to permit construction of parking lots holding from eight to 30 cars in residential areas. Speaking at yesterday's Council meeting, Hartzog said the new lots would provide vitally needed off-street parking, clearing the main streets for traffic and short-time parking...
Elizabeth civic leaders demanded that the airport be closed permanently. Real-estate values in the city dropped. Newark flights were switched to the other New York fields last week, increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...
...there were a few more plane crashes in built-up areas, the airlines would be faced with a strong public demand to put airports much farther from city centers. This would cut heavily into airline traffic by reducing their time advantage over ground transport on shorter runs...
Love would dominate Venus if language did not drench it. Language is Fry's own true love, and Venus catches the glow of poetry, the mocking glints of parody, the flashing of rhetoric and the shimmer of wit. Amid such a tangle of traffic lights, traffic itself snarls, detours and halts. In The Lady's Not for Burning, with its medieval echoes and broomstick leaps of witchcraft and romance, Fry could be simultaneously prankster and poet, could spoof the very verse he spouted. But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare...
...State Mental Health Institute, Clarinda, Iowa, where she had been a patient since 1947. Hailing the U.S. dry era as "halcyon days," she firmly believed that prohibition would eventually come back to stay. Her credo: "I love God, my country and little children. I hate the liquor traffic and abhor all vice...