Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Injuries and deaths arising from traffic accidents constitute one of the most costly aftermaths of the introduction of technology in modern society. Countermeasures are only now emerging from a pre-scientific stage but promise to reduce the extent of morbidity and mortality, and also greatly to expand basic understanding of human behavior and the management of complex systems...
...fist-swing ing, china-shattering riots that had erupted in the cafeterias of two schools the week before, disrupting classes and causing 30 arrests. About the same time, most of the 2,372 students of Chicago's predominantly Negro Dunbar Vocational High rallied in the streets, stopped traffic, threw rocks at cars; many abandoned classes...
AIRLINES Leaving Their Dollars President Johnson's proposed travel tax would hurt all airlines that fly be tween the U.S. and Europe. But it figures to work a special hardship on foreign carriers, since they currently handle 60% of all transatlantic traffic...
Barring last-minute hitches, American Airlines this week expects to sign a $750 million contract for some 30 to 35 McDonnell Douglas tri-jet DC-10s. Like Lockheed's airbus contender, the Douglas plane was devised to enable the airlines to fly travelers in economy-size flocks. With traffic growing at a steady 14% a year, the carriers consider air buses their best hope of avoiding menacing traffic jams in the skies between major U.S. cities in the '70s. Though primarily developed for hauls of 250 to 1,000 miles, the DC-10 will be capable of flying...
...which now takes about 45 minutes and $10 in unmetered cab fare, British Rail is going to construct a line between Victoria Station and an underground stop at Heathrow. Without such a rail link, experts have predicted, the disembarking passengers from each of the new jets would create a traffic jam one mile long...