Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once (1870) the third largest city in the U.S., it had slipped down to eighth. The city was one-quarter slum, another quarter near-slum, and no new office building had been put up in 25 years. The municipal budget was deep ($4,200,000) in the red. Downtown traffic was chaotic, industry was pulling out, property values and business activity were dropping; e.g., city retail sales, up almost everywhere else, were down 10% from 1948. Said a St. Louis cabbie of that dismal time, 1953: "This city was dying...
...pipe. This eliminates the drive shaft that clutters low-slung cars, and it distributes the engine's weight in a desirable way. Unlike straight gas turbines, free piston engines have quick response. The man whose self-confidence is supported by making jackrabbit starts when the traffic light turns green will not suffer deflation if his dream-car of the future has free pistons...
Domestic airlines argue that the new routes for KLM (worth about $1,000,000 a year in passenger and freight traffic) will open the door for much more foreign competition for U.S. airlines. The State Department got in return rights for U.S. carriers to fly from any point in the U.S. to Amsterdam and beyond (the U.S. now flies from Amsterdam only to Frankfurt) and into and beyond Surinam and The Netherlands Antilles (Pan American already flies to the Antilles). But U.S. carriers belittle such concessions, point out that air traffic between the U.S. and the Antilles is light...
...problems of traffic congestion and public reaction to planning were stressed by the two other speakers on the program, Victor Gruen, an architect, and Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life magazine. Heiskell emphasized the opposition encountered by city planners, and quoted early abuse of Rockefeller Center by the New York Times and Walter Lippmann, who called Radio City Music Hall "a pedestal for a peanut...
...difficulty in present urban forms, Gruen said, is that the twofold purposes of streets--providing shopping centers as well as a rapid flow of traffic--are antithetical. According to his plan, residential "clusters" of buildings would form "constellations" around a social center. Traffic would emerge from these clusters into "freeways," and then into large loop and belt arteries...