Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third company was called the Ford Motor Co. The bicycle makers John and Horace Dodge made parts. James Couzens came from the traffic department of a coal yard for $2,500 a year. They paid $75 a month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working parts; $46 for four tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick...
Passenger Traffic. Railroad passenger traffic has steadily declined since 1921, but every month since November 1928 the rate of decrease has grown smaller. Railroad men feel that passenger traffic has reached its minimum, will improve in the future. As 60 passengers can be hauled in the same coach and at the same cost as 30, an increase in passenger traffic would be very healthy for net incomes...
Strong is Southern Pacific's position and large its earnings, yet in its position is one bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast...
...Lowman in charge of Prohibition who has repeatedly asserted that 85% of U. S. liquor comes in via Canada. Minister Euler definitely rejected the U. S. proposal that Canada, by act of Parliament, prohibit clearance papers for U. S. liquor cargoes, explaining that such a prohibition would "drive the traffic underground, saddle us with heavy expenses and do our neighbors no good." Continued the Dominion official: "Liquor in Canada, whether we may like it or not. is legal merchandise. Once liquor has paid the excise, it is as free as other legal commodities ... for exportation." "...Our citizens would be corrupted...
...recall of diplomatic violators of Washington's traffic rules...