Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city traffic board may go into an extra session next week to pass the report on to the Council as soon as possible. The Council ordered the board to make the survey five weeks ago, but until yesterday there had been no definite promise of its completion...
...Houses. The tunnel height suddenly becomes three feet thanks to the shallowness of the Rapid Transit below; the traveler must hoist himself up a ladder and onto a rickety wooden cart, pulling himself across by a rope. Below rumbles the Rapid Transit, and above, the Massachusetts Avenue traffic...
That year a matinee idol died at the age of 31. TIME reported of Rudolph Valentino's funeral that "traffic was choked with grieving thousands...
...bring in $4,000. But it had a far more profound effect, which may have been the real intention of Congress when it wrote the new law: the gambling business of the U.S. almost came to a standstill. A 10% tax on gross business was probably more than the traffic would bear. Even more discouraging was form 11-C. Names and addresses on it would be open to local police, who are supposed to enforce antigambling laws in 47 states (gambling is legal in Nevada). Even a bribed policeman would find it hard to protect a gambler whose name...
Back in his home town of St. Andrews (22 miles from Calais, Me.), Stuart's candid comments got a laugh from many townspeople. It was not quite so amusing to local customs men and Mounties, currently engaged in trying to stop the growing traffic in cigarettes (23? a pack in Maine; 46? in N.B.). There was no chance that the government would act on Stuart's tariff-toppling recommendations. But in a week when the cost-of-living index passed 190 for the first time in Canadian history, he had dramatized the soaring prices of consumer goods...