Detroit Freeway TV Project Tests Traffic Flow
Detroit’s John C Lodge Freeway traffic surveillance and control research project began in 1940 as a $400,000 pilot funded 75 percent by the federal government. A TV system will report speeds lane status and vehicle counts to help move more cars more efficiently.
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John C Lodge
Michigan State Highway Department
Wayne County Road, Commission
Detroit
Department of Streets and Traffic
United States Bureau of Public Roads
Carmichael counts on new speed and lane signs
Carmichael notes the counting equipment has operated for several months while the speed and lane control signs are newly installed.
Project aims to repave 22 miles of Lodge Freeway in midtown
The project covers 22 miles of the Lodge Freeway in Detroit midtown, a main auto commuting route for thousands in the northwestern city and northern suburbs. On a normal weekday about 150,000 cars travel the stretch, more than the total cars in states like Delaware Nevada Vermont or Wyoming.
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Midtown
Detroit
Delaware
Nevada
Vermont
Wyoming
The Red World Writing Unpublished Yet Is Widely Read
A disheveled man gives a tourist a manuscript of a novel from Russia. The Unsung Song by Mikhail Naritsa details life under Stalin and the prison state. Naritsa’s fate remains uncertain after a Moscow inquiry, while illicit Soviet literature circulates widely in handwritten or mimeographed form.
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Russia
West Germany
Stalin
West
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Naritsa
Khrushchev
Naritsa
Germany
Soviet Union
Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhihago
Doctor Zhivaga
Stalingrad
Writer's Union
Tashkent
Alcoa to Begin Talks With Two Unions in May
Alcoa will start negotiations on new labor contracts in New York City. The talks with United Steelworkers begin May 15 and with Aluminum Workers International Union the following day.
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Pittsburgh
Aluminum Co. of America Alcoa
New York City
United Steelworkers Union
Aluminum Workers International Union
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