Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before they had time to discuss him (as most of them did) they found themselves seated before curtains, twitteringly awaiting visions of fair women or the croak of tragedy. This unprecedented condition-the theatres filling on time-was caused by Commissioner Whalen's having resolved "to solve the traffic problem...
Elsewhere, onlookers jeered and cheered as cars parked at forbidden hours in forbidden places were trundled off by wrecking crews. The principal Whalen innovations were two: 1) "spectacle dramas" (girls) to begin at 8:30; other productions at 8:50; 2) No traffic turning whatsoever in the district...
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon recently decided that air traffic from Canada, Mexico, the West Indies and elsewhere had become so heavy that customs men must be assigned to inspect the incoming planes. Otherwise smuggling on a large scale threatened (TIME, Jan. 21). Businessmen learned his intention and at once their chambers of commerce besieged the Treasury Department. They wanted their communities designated air ports of entry where foreign planes must land for a customs declaration. Mr. Mellon received some 60 strident demands. But he closed his ears and hardened his heart. The only air ports of entry...
...victim. They know that "Flash" the famous movie canine, got "Feagan's gang" on the University screen all during the first part of the week, and that the desperadoes of "The Dreamland Cafe Below the Deadline" in the picture "Shadows of the Underworld" could not possibly injure the genial traffic officer...
...strains as this, it is certainly time that something is done about the effect of criminal motion pictures on juveniles. If the screen influences little Cambridge schoolgirls to threaten the city's nicest policeman, it might cause impressionable little boys to set up a Cambridge underworld and "burn down" traffic officers in Harvard Square right before Harvard undergraduates...