Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also in response to the new enforcement several City councillors yesterday demanded that Robert E. Rudolph, director of Traffic and Parking, speed up the painting of City crosswalks. According to the anti-jaywalking law, a pedestrian must use a crosswalk if the nearest one is within 300 feet...
Brennan assured Councillor Cornelia B. Wheeler that police would also ticket cars which failed to stop at crosswalks without traffic signals...
...public to indignation over murders, rapes, infanticides, and all manner of heinous crimes supposedly committed under its influence. The most significant outcome of the resulting hysteria over the Marihuana Menace was the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, which empowered the Treasure Department and its Bureau of Narcotics to control traffic in Cannabis...
...About car safety [April 22]: the most salutary single change the manufacturers could introduce would be to make their vehicles so that they could not be turned left. This would eliminate all accidents caused by automobiles drifting across the center line or turning in front of oncoming traffic. Anyone who wanted to turn left could do so simply by making a turn 270° to the right. This might entail the development of new driving techniques, but no real loss would be suffered. With everyone in the country turning to the right, the nation's security and continued prosperity...
What ever happened to the Minoan civilization? Centered on the island of Crete 15 centuries before Christ, the seagoing Minoans once dominated the commerce and influenced the culture of the eastern Mediterranean. Suddenly, their advanced civilization came to a catastrophic end. Great temples and lavish palaces fell into ruin. Traffic halted on a complex system of paved roads; elaborate viaducts crumbled, and most of the residents of Crete died or mysteriously disappeared...