Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge City Council has passed a ruling asking the city police to survey traffic conditions around the University "with a view to enforcing all traffic regulations in order to clear congestion...
...situation has been further complicated by the uncomfortably narrow, crooked character of many local streets. Over half of Cambridge's streets are 27 feet or less wide. On many of these parking on both sides and two way traffic is permitted. Assuming that the average car is six feet three inches wide, and that it is parked within one foot of the curb, this leaves about thirteen feet for two cars whose combined width is twelve and one half feet to pass...
Unfortunately, no immediate solution is likely to appear. John W. Teele, Planning Coordinator, is conducting an investigation of traffic patterns in the Square, and other concerned with the parking problem continue to explore its may facets...
Telltale Warmth. A trained intelligence expert can extract all sorts of information from an infra-red photograph. He can follow traffic along the roads and into underground hiding places. He can tell by the temperature of its winches whether a ship is handling cargo. He can decide at a glance whether an airfield is in use. Infra-red camouflage is theoretically possible, but even if a plant or missile station is put deep underground, it will have trouble dumping its heat in a way that will not show...
...Transport and Communications, the branch responsible for working out air agreements, is dispensing U.S. routes to foreign operators with far too lavish a hand, and getting little-or nothing-in return. The cumulative effect, say the lines, is that while U.S.-flag carriers flew 80% of all transatlantic traffic in 1947, today they account for slightly less than 50%, even though almost 70% of all passengers are U.S. citizens...