Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the Wall. Gershman nourished initiative partly by his insistence on exemplary routine. When a bureau hand named Jack Mabley turned in an account of a traffic fatality, he was sent back across town-five miles by street car - to get the middle initial of a survivor. "Once you do that," says Mabley, today a columnist for Chicago's American, "you never forget again...
...million, largely because of gains from its Flexi-Vans and triple-tiered auto-hauling carriages, which enabled the line to carry 900,000 autos last year, as against none at all in 1961. Altogether, railroad men increased their outlays for new equipment by 39% last year, saw freight traffic increase 6.9%-faster than the rise in U.S. industrial production. Last week they got a psychological fillip from President Johnson's plan for what would surely be the most dramatic improvement in equipment in many years: a superspeed train to lead a technological revolution on the rails...
...Traffic and parking are generally considered to be two of the largest potential problems. Library officials are known to want considerable parking space nearby. Hayes has also expressed interest in increased parking spaces in the Harvard Square area...
...would advertise as soon as he got the Civil Service's O.K. Councillor Trodden summarized that it would be July 4 before Rudolph had his assistant. "I'd be happy to have him by July 4," Rudolph confessed, but Trodden told him the Council wouldn't. Then, reminding the traffic director that the City Budget had included $8000 since last January for the assistant, Trodden said, "You've had money in the budget for a year and done nothing about it. That's why our whole traffic problem is bogged down...
Rudolph has not convinced the Council. He may be a traffic expert, but if doesn't acquire a little more political expertise he'll never get a chance to show anyone in Cambridge. The Council will not guillotine him immediately, but a warning from Trodden seemed to carry some not too subtle implications for the future: "You were hired because we needed you--now, you produce...