Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are, of course, other problems. Los Angeles is struggling to lay enough sewage lines, provide enough water, build enough hospitals to accommodate its mushrooming population. The city can barely build new freeways fast enough to keep up with the growing auto population, and traffic is already so bad that a single accident can pile up as many as 50 cars in one grand smashup. The task of problem solving is falling increasingly on the state government in Sacramento or on Washington. After city and county authorities balked at using local tax funds, for example, the state...
...British was the paper that it cheered Hitler and protested South Africa's participation in World War II. The only mention it made of the visit of King George VI in 1947 was a note warning its readers to avoid certain Johannesburg streets, which would be jammed with traffic because "some foreign visitors" were in town...
Somewhat grudgingly, the strikers voted at week's end to accept an 18% raise in pay and benefits over three years and to return to work at five airlines that normally carry 60% of the nation's air traffic. That 4.97%-a-year boost shattered what little was left of the President's 3.2%-a-year guideposts for restraining wage and price increases in the inflation-threatened U.S. economy. More ominously, the settlement opened wide the gate for other unions with 2,250,000 workers, including those in such key industries as electrical equipment, autos, trucking, clothing...
...this scale, according to LIFE Science Library's Sound and Hearing, normal breathing measures 10 decibels, leaves rustling in a breeze score 20, a quiet restaurant 50, busy traffic 70, Niagara Falls 90, machine-gun fire at close range 130, a jet at takeoff 140, and a space rocket...
...based airlines that were still flying-notably American and Pan Am -were having their own troubles. Though they have done all they can to pick up strike-caused traffic, they are embarrassed by the fact that many potential passengers call their ticket offices, get busy signals, and assuming that the situation is hopeless, give up. American, which has had some flights depart with unfilled seats, ran ads last week trying to smooth over the situation. "Come out to the American terminal at the airport," the ads urged. "If the flight you want is all booked up, there...