Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Course in Traffic and Transportation. Fifteen lectures. Serves as an introduction to the study of foreign trade. Under direction of Mr. Edward F. McSweency, former chairman of the Directors of the Port of Boston. Wednesday evenings. College of Business Administration...
...English officer, writing to the London Times, states: 'I am very much surprised to see in the press so little mention of the splendid work of the signal companies. They are called 'the main lines of communication' and over their lines day and night pass a continuous flood of traffic for the hospital bases, ordnance remount, and in fact, every move made in this terrible war is transmitted over their lines. They deserve the highest credit for their excellent work...
...National Defense Council recently appointed by the President, and also Chairman of the Executive Committee of the combined railroads of the country, told how the railroads have already organized for the purpose of adopting every means in their power to expedite and facilitate the military and other traffic of the Government, and also expressed his appreciation of the value of such organization as the Reserve Officers' Training Corps...
...country, as well as the transporting of the crops raised. The problem of water transportation will be met in part by diverting to the ocean service many of the ships now engaged in the coastwise trade, thereby making it necessary for the railroad companies to handle the additional traffic now carried by our coastwise vessels, and I believe that they will be equal to the emergency...
...almost a generation Brazil has been actively concerned, because of her extensive coast-line and river system, with the problem of building up water transportation facilities. This policy has involved such steps as the expenditure of liberal subsidies, the enforcement of protective legislation with reference to coast-wise traffic, and the general encouragement of national shipping. Until the beginning of the present war, the Brazilian merchant marine did not figure conspicuously in foreign trade. But with the disordered shipping conditions that arose after August 1, 1914, and particularly as a result of the disruption of the pooling agreement between various...