Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight full days and close to 100 hours. My time is worth $30 an hour. I've given the service. It was a personal sacrifice to me." Furthermore, he thought he was merely following the widespread medical practice of charging (within limits) what the traffic will bear: he had heard that the Hoopers had got a lot of money in donations. Not so, retorted the Hoopers; they had only got $2,400, had given $1,000 to the Manorville fire department, which played a big part in the rescue. Kris said he would not "crowd" the Hoopers, but eventually...
...Place in the City. In Wilmington, Del, Traffic Engineer Robert A. Mitchell, hardened to frauds on the nickel parking meter, figured that the woman who shoved in her wedding ring must have been really frantic...
...Great Wall of China. The interstate network will reach into every corner of the U.S.-75% of it over new routes-to link 42 state capitals and 90% of all cities with more than 50,000 population. It will carry a fifth of the nation's traffic, provide vital defense routes in case of war. Total cost of the entire program: $100 billion-nearly 300 times the cost of the Panama Canal. The Government will pay 90% of the federal network, 50% of other roads, by raising gasoline, tire and other excise taxes...
...tire and brake wear. It will be designed for safe speeds of up to 70 m.p.h. (today's average highway speeds: passenger cars 51, trucks 46, buses 52). Motorists will be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York over the federal network without passing a single traffic light or intersection...
...Edward Peck Curtis, 60, who returns to Eastman Kodak Co. as vice president. "Pete" Quesada, who was wartime commander of the Ninth Fighter Command in Europe and boss of the thermonuclear bomb tests at Eniwetok in 1951, will quarterback the Eisenhower Administration's plans to work out a traffic control system for the commercial jet age. Last week the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took the first big step toward such a plan, voted to create an air modernization board (TIME, May 27) that will lay the groundwork for a joint air control system for military and civil...