Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highway traffic, like many another thing, follows the cheapest route. Operators of the New Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...
...hands over head, walk out of the garage, followed by two uniformed policemen with leveled guns. Obviously a raid and an arrest. She watched captors and captives enter the blue car, which flashed down the street, passed a trolley on the wrong side, melted away in traffic...
Railroads. Though passenger traffic on Class I railroads (184 main trunk lines) was the smallest in the last 20 years, freight traffic increased ½ to 1% and by cutting operating expenses most roads showed larger earnings per share in spite of many decreases in gross income. These roads reported net operating income of approximately $1,200,000,000, a return of 4.71% on their property investment. The 1927 return was 4.38%. The following table (from Dow, Jones & Co.) gives 1928 and 1927 surplus after charges and earnings per share of the following roads: 1928 1927 Baltimore & Ohio...
...have accumulated a few thousand dollars, and with their deplorable taste have entered the managing game. Another factor lies in ticket speeulation which, if not curbed, will be the death of the theatre. And a final reason lies in the difficulty of making one's way through New York traffic, a thing which Police Commissioner Whalen may have remedied to some extent...
...taupe-colored felt hat pulled down over his bespectacled hazel eyes. His black, curly hair was awry and needed cutting. His hands were in his pockets, with one nickel, one dime and one quarter. Other people of other descriptions were milling and bumping around him with other gaits. Traffic was moving, rumbling and screeching. The earth quaked from subway trains and building blasting...