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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of this increased efficiency, and what it means to street users, seems worth quoting. In a recent article in "Nation's Business" the superintendent of vehicle service of the Railway Express Agency, operating some 200 definite routes in the "loop" area states, "No parking has already increased our speed twenty-five per cent, as far as travel is concerned. Since the ordinance went into effect we have been able consistently to handle five per cent, more business in the "loop" with exactly the same number of vehicles and the same personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Traffic Congestion Relieved by Advice of Harvard Bureau--Most Streets Used at Efficiency of 50 to 75 Percent | 1/10/1930 | See Source »

Carl Ben Eielson, 32, is, perhaps was, general manager of Alaskan Airways. There are no regular air transport lines in the Peninsula. Alaskan Airways has bases at Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks. It charters its planes for taxi and express service, using about 70 small government landing fields in summer and any patch of level snow in winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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