Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nuremberg accident was due to poor condition of the railroad caused by lack of money and that a rate increase would remedy this situation. . . . I have before me the 1927 annual report of the German National Railway Company and find that the number of accidents in 1927, measured by traffic volume, was lower than under the excellent pre-war conditions in 1913. With pride and satisfaction this report shows that in the safety contest of the world's railroads the German roads are among the very first and compare favorably with the statistics of the American railroads...
...most sizable U. S. cities, the policemen at traffic stops or walking their beats in residential districts make a practice of accosting peaceful citizens several times a year and shoving forward a printed ticket in a purposeful way. The ticket often resembles, in color and size, the card that one gets for speeding, parking without lights or committing a nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits...
...selection of our judges and prosecuting attorneys. "5) The apathy and indifference of our best citizens toward their duty as citizens. Those best qualified to serve as jurors seek to avoid the service because of its discomforts or because they dislike to leave their business. "6) Unrestricted traffic in firearms. . . . And Retiring-President Strawn went further. He faced what has been going on around him in Chicago ever since Prohibition. He said: "The crime surveys show that crimes of violence, especially in the urban centres, committed largely by bootleggers and beer runners, have increased to an alarming extent...
Dark as the inside of an empty wine cask and reeking with the same stale smells is a certain evil subterranean cafe in Warsaw. Last week Polish detectives surrounded silently, peered down and into the place expectantly. They saw M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein in strange traffic with some two score creatures whose air was furtive, smugglerous...
Instructor Wilhelm II first lectured for 75 minutes on the topic "Ocean Traffic," then listened to four 30-minute lectures on Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Oriental art, architecture...