Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jute mills have been forced to reduce output 25% , while some Dacca cigarette factories have closed down completely because no tobacco is being imported from West Bengal. Travel between the two countries is almost nonexistent, postal and telegraph communications operate far below standard, and rail, road and river traffic is severely curtailed in both nations. India and Pakistan may not be actively at war, but they are not at peace either...
With 200 Congressmen, auto exectives and Administration officials on hand at the White House, President Johnson last week signed into law two auto-safety bills. Also present: Ralph Nader (Unsafe at Any Speed). One bill offers federal financial incentives to the states to develop more effective traffic-safety programs. The other requires the Secretary of Commerce to promulgate, by next Jan. 31, safety standards that will become mandatory for automakers in their 1968 models. It also sets up, within the Commerce Department, a new National Traffic Safety Agency...
...tollbooths that gobble up the loose change of American drivers as they sweep through bridges, tunnels and turnpikes ring up record profits every year. In 1966, toll-road traffic in the U.S. will increase by 10% over 1965, to 750 million vehicles. The new Verrazano-Narrows Bridge across the mouth of New York harbor earned $11 million in the year ending last July; in 1965, the six tunnels and bridges controlled by the Port of New York Authority grossed $64 million...
...ridiculous decrees as the Red Guard demand that troops no longer pass a reviewing stand with a reactionary eyes right but adopt a properly revolutionary eyes left. The Red Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy...
...since 1950. Estimates were that it had cost $ 15 million a day in vanished wages, railroad revenues and losses to business. It had isolated for a time such areas as Prince Edward Island, which depends largely on railroad-owned ferry service to the mainland; it had also caused monumental traffic jams in Montreal, where people who normally use commuter trains flocked to work in cars. Most important, the lack of train service had doubled demands for passenger and cargo space on Air Canada and sent businessmen scurrying for highway trucks to keep their material rolling. The total percentage...