Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tract by tract, town by new town across the once-shunned dry riverbeds, up the hillsides, into the canyons and even along the fringes of the forbidding brown mountains. One of the farthest reaches of the commuter turned out to be the little colony of Malibu, built some 30 traffic-tangled miles from the heart of Los Angeles, at a point along Highway 101A where the brush-covered Santa Monica Mountains drop down to the Pacific. One reason for Malibu's attractiveness: when other parts of Los Angeles County are stifling with smog (partly abetted by the exhaust fumes...
...place during "the change in seasons when the North American continent experiences its worst weather ... On the day operations were most intense, there were three major weather fronts across the North American continent. The Civil Aeronautics Administration was hard pressed to keep abreast of all SAC and civilian air traffic." Despite such difficulties, tough, exacting General Curtis LeMay's SAC put on a near-perfect display of massive, smooth-functioning air power: every plane took off on schedule, every aerial refueling (the B-47s used some 16 million gallons of fuel during the exercise) was successfully carried...
...Planemakers, who have the biggest backlog ($3.5 billion) of civilian plane orders in their history, feel that they are just getting started. "Of course I'm bullish," says Boeing President William McPherson Allen, moving his finger along an upward-slanted line on a chart. "The volume of airline traffic is bound to go up like this each year, between 10% and 15%. The jet will tend to accelerate it by shrinking the world...
...model T. The $33.5 billion, 13-year Government highway program will start bringing it up to date in 1957. And states everywhere are adding billions more for new turnpikes, secondary roads, and enormous elevated crossovers such as Pittsburgh's five-level parkway interchange designed to eliminate traffic and bottlenecks and speed travel. In California, for example, the state highway commission has been gouging away at the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles. In places, it is cutting to a depth of 350 ft., and will remove 15 million cubic yards of earth-5,000,000 truckloads...
...Confessin ... In Manhattan, Scofflaw Johnny Raffa was arrested, socked with a 30-day sentence and given his choice of a $2,900 fine or another 116 days in the cooler for ignoring 58 traffic tickets, after he showed up for his first professional singing engagement at the annual ball of the Traffic Squad Benevolent Association...