Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senators Lenroot, Fess, Bruce urged that, if the transcontinental business were practically taken from the railroads and given to the ships, the railroads would be forced to raise their rates on all traffic, and even the interior Rocky Mountain states would lose in the end. Up spake keen Mr. Walsh of Montana; prodded the three Senators lustily for daring to imply that the business men of the Rocky Mountain states did not know what was good for them. At last, with 26 minutes left, Senator Gooding of Idaho rose for the final speech. Said...
...January, 1925, one seat at the eleven-chaired table of the Interstate Commerce Commission became vacant. To fill it the President turned to the South. Dozens of southern names were presented to him, names of able railroaders, "good traffic men." But none of them was what the President wanted. Finally, it was hinted that he had found his man. But the ideal Southerner refused the chair...
...farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly because this canal has been a very expensive white elephant, partly because it would profit greatly from an increased volume...
...young and smiling faces a-top banjos which some said had been heard in Spokane stopped beaming at the bevy of upturned faces--the Pathe news of the Leviathan--and then Bebe the inimitable, the exquisite--the comedienne is off in a cloud of dust, traffic cops, contortionists--and who hasn't wanted to break a big vase--or be a million dollars out and five millions...
...Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., the National Industrial and Traffic League, the U. S. Rubber Co., the National Retail Grocers' Associations and the New England Textile Industries, all sent representatives who objected to the change...