Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time it extends the new system along its entire New York-Chicago main line. In return, the Central will be able to cut its number of tracks in half, save millions on taxes and maintenance. Says President Perlman: "Through electronics, we are now able to control more traffic faster, better and more economically than ever before...
...Central's installation of pushbutton traffic controls is only the latest example of a great revolution sweeping U.S. railroads (see color pages). Since World War II, the industry has poured some $12 billion into new engines, new tracks and trains, a host of futuristic electronic gadgets. As a result of their increased efficiency, the 113 Class 1 U.S. railroads (more than $3,000,000 annual revenue) have been able to cut their road mileage from 249,000 mi. in 1929 to about 220,000 mi. today, the number of locomotives from 61,300 to 34,000, the number...
...virtual monopoly, and the public could be damned. Even as late as World War II, U.S. railroads had an antiquated plant far behind other industries. Cars, buses and planes started eating into passenger revenues; the booming young trucking industry, along with barges and fast-expanding pipelines, cut into freight traffic. Between 1943 and 1949 the railroad share of the $30 billion U.S. transportation market crumbled from...
Some clergymen last week opposed the establishment of a dog track in the little (pop. 1900) town of Bellingham, Mass. on the grounds that it would create "a demoralizing effect" on the community and bad traffic conditions. Inside sources, however, claim that the real reason behind the opposition is not traffic or anything like that but the local aldermen's dislike of the "city outsiders" who would build the track. And whether gambling at a dog track is any more "demoralizing" than Wednesday night beano gambling need not be a consideration in this case...
Another proposal calls for a "point system" for automobile drivers. Under this plan, drivers would be given points for each traffic violation, and their accumulation of points would be considered before license suspension is ordered...