Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grace period to prevent a strike and now is helpless to act beyond presidential persuasion or special authority from Congress or the courts. A rail strike could idle up to 630,000 workers, halt commuter service and sidetrack as much as 30% of all military traffic...
...Journey Through a Haunted Land, "when you are in East Germany, it appears as if the war were only yesterday." The countryside, with its villages, horse-drawn carts and unmechanized farms, looks as if the clock had been turned back 30 or 40 years. The highways are potholed and traffic ranges from light to nonexistent. The blue haze of soft-coal smoke seems to shroud the cities, adding to the ever-present smells of cabbage and disinfectant. The cautious satirists in East Berlin's Distel (Thistle) cabaret suggested one socialist solution for some of East Germany's ills...
...some of the drop, auto companies last week sued to have them modified, particularly Standard 201, which requires extensive interior protection to reduce injuries in case of collision. The federal court suits were filed because a legal deadline was approaching; meanwhile, the companies will continue negotiations with the National Traffic Safety Agency in hopes of having agency standards eased...
Back to the Shrimp Boats. Even while it evaluates these and other advanced air-traffic devices, the FAA has begun to install advanced radar traffic-control systems. Computerized alphanumeric systems are already in operation in air-traffic control centers in Atlanta, Jacksonville and New York, electronically printing the flight number, course and altitude next to the appropriate airliner blip on the radarscope. Eventually, FAA hopes to blanket U.S. airspace with alphanumeric coverage, providing a three-dimensional radar picture of all air traffic equipped with the necessary transponders...
...screen to punch buttons on a computer input box, leaving his flights unattended for several vital seconds. In addition, as the alphanumeric data blocks move with their appropriate blips across the screen, they occasionally merge with data blocks from other flights, making both sets of data illegible. During heavy traffic, when the screen is crowded with blips and data, controllers switch off the alphanumeric system and go back to the traditional system of manually moving "shrimp boats"?plastic identification markers?across the screen with their appropriate blips...