Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second of two recent attempts to reverse the flow of traffic on Quincy St. proved unsuccessful yesterday. A meeting of the Traffic Board unanimously agreed to reject the proposed change of direction between Harvard St. and Cambridge...
This action followed that of the Cambridge City Council on Sept. 21 rejecting a motion by Councilor Joseph D. DeGuglielmo for a 30 day trial of the new street pattern. Backers of the proposal claimed it would relieve the traffic through Harvard Square. Buses and other vehicles going north to Arlington and North Cambridge would be able to cut across behind the Yard...
...most ambitious proposals made by the commission were those intended to relieve traffic problems in the Yale area. As well as closure of several streets now running through the campus and construction of a student parking garage, the commission's report called for a $3 million vehicular tunnel passing under downtown New Haven. Such a tunnel might be financed jointly by the city and the university, the commission suggested...
...late with jets when President W. A. Patterson, over hot opposition in :he company, turned down the 707 in favor of the DC-8 of its longstanding supplier, Douglas. Because of late delivery of the planes, Patterson gloomily forecast a $3 million to $10 million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled...
Last week the other 88% found a sorely needed traffic cop: the new American College Testing Program, brainchild of President E. F. Lindquist of the Measurement Research Center at the State University of Iowa. Using Lindquist's whizbang $1,000,000 scoring machines (6,000 answer sheets an hour), ACT is aimed at Midwestern colleges that have finally started using entrance exams and want to maintain uniform standards...