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...late yet; the Museum can still buy up some harpoons from the Eskimos and some one-pounders from the Japanese, and really go after this thing with zest. Let the man-eating pirates be scourged from the high seas before they can commit any more depredations on the pedestrian commerce of our waterways. The Museum, as a unit representing Harvard, should not go fishing for peaceful fish while there are still so many killers at large...
...Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute in which police officers from all parts of the U. S. enroll in two courses, one general course of two weeks, the other a full university term from October to June. The short course deals with accident investigation, reports and records, traffic legislation, pedestrian control, and drunken-driver control. The nine-month training covers all this with such additions as public speaking, vehicle inspection, traffic engineering and criminal law. Practical demonstrations and problems are worked out on the streets of Evanston...
...elevator, dashed out the front door. A few moments later they pulled Municipal Judge Louis Petrash out of the driver's seat of his car and roared off toward Cleveland's Public Square at 60 m. p. h. Disregarding traffic signals they mowed down a woman pedestrian, breaking both her arms and legs. With the doors swinging wide-open and tires screeching around corners, the convicts outdistanced pursuing police...
...Dunster House there was the case of the upperclassman who periodically got drunk and exploded his shotguns all over the court. A pedestrian on Massachusetts Avenue one day felt his new felt hat lifted from his head. A bullet from some unknown source had passed clear through it, In indignation he demanded that somebody, anybody...
Explanation; Fm vechicular flow on Main St.; for "peak hour"; Fc=ditto on Cross St.;Lm=left turns from Main St.;Lc= ditto from Cross St.;Pm= pedestrian flow across Main St.; rc = ditto across Cross St -Wm= Width of Mam St.; W. -width of Cross St; Sh -average speed of vehicles going faster than critical approach speed; So critical approach Speed K = derived constant; Wk -standard width of roadway; A = arbitrary values for special conditions; IR = composite intersection rating...