Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal to booming Toronto. In mental atmosphere the two cities are different as Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount Royal, and Montreal became about as venturesome as the Bank of England...
...Drive to Garden and Kirkland Streets, M. A. Kraft research assistant for the Bureau, revealed yesterday. The numbers of vehicles reported on each street from 7:00 o'clock in the morning to 7:00 o'clock in the evening are being tabulated in a large diagram called a "flow map." Eight feet square, the flow map indicates the volume of traffic on any street by the width of that street on the map. Hence, on a preliminary scale drawing of the map, Massachusetts Avenue was drawn at least five times as wide as Holyoke Street...
...count of everything entering or leaving the Yard has been conducted by students for the past few weeks. Results of these observations will also be shown on the flow map. Sex of pedestrians; bicycles, and all kinds of vehicles have been recorded...
...industry, highly mechanized as it is, employs less than 15,000 workers. Housewives and voters are likely to feel that sugar is basically the same whether it comes in barrels or packages, whether it comes from a refinery in Brooklyn or Cuba. Moreover, some 80% of the refined imports flow from the Caribbean, minimizing the probability of interruption of the nation's sugar supply in case...
...Dunster Chimneys". Those chimneys that create our skylne have a greater significance than most people notice. They mean fire-places. There are less than half a dozen rooms in the House without fire-places, despite the never falling central heating system, and about them on long winter evenings the flow of good ale is mixed with the flow of equally good conversation...