Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House a bill to set up a new, civilian-bossed Federal Aviation Agency that will take over air-control functions now scattered among half a dozen federal agencies and boards. Created to prevent collisions in the U.S.'s increasingly crowded airspace, the FAA will make and enforce traffic rules for all commercial, private and military aircraft...
Buffed. In Elizabethton, Tenn., 22 motorists chased two fire trucks across town and into a trap set by police, who were waiting with summonses for traffic obstruction...
...week got off to a big start with the parade, which stopped traffic cold in the Loop for four hours and a half. Maybe 12,000 people marched-some counted 46 floats and close to a hundred bands-but not one too many of those luscious-legged drum majorettes from such towns as Magnolia, Ark. and Kitchener, Ont. Later in the week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates...
...such error. In this centennial year, pilgrims are expected to spend more than $190 million on pious objects. Even the smallest shop near the shrine is estimated to be worth almost $200,000 to its owner. Lourdes has now even put hinges on its street signs to reroute traffic through a different area of town every two weeks so as to give each merchant an equal crack at the pilgrims...
...Sandman. In Ashiya, Japan, a ten-day crackdown on horn blowing was so successful that the only traffic accident during the period involved a driver who fell asleep at the wheel...