Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the high overcast the air was sharp and clear; from the control tower at Washington National Airport, swarthy, earnest 21-year-old Glen T. Tigner could see for miles out over the Virginia countryside. Traffic was light. A war surplus P-38, owned by the Bolivian government, took off for a practice flight at 11:37. It snarled off out of sight. Then there was a lull before Eastern Air Lines flight 537, a four-engine DC-4 inbound from New York, asked for landing instructions...
...group, which began its altruism last month by paving the mud-slough on upper Plympton Street, had planned to lessen pre-game crowding on Anderson bridge by shunting part of the traffic across on a rowboat...
...Square traffic was at a standstill for over an hour yesterday afternoon when the MTA power went off at 4:30 p.m., causing cars to line up for almost a mile. Commuters on the way home during the rush hour heightened the chaos caused by the power failure. The damage was repaired...
Boyd Killingsworth, a gangly youth, admitted that the raid had originated at a meeting of the Adamsville klavern presided over by Brownie's brother. "We stopped by the highway and robed up," said Killingsworth. At the McDanal house, "I helped direct traffic...
...boys were having a hell of a time," said Randall last night, "and didn't realize that it wasn't the idea of their having fun in the Square, but the obstructing of traffic, that the police objected...