Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passenger traffic decreased...
...teaching grave little Addie her sums and reading and geography, placing with her, bathing in creeks, he being as much a part of the chicken-wagon family as Breaksteel or Kit and Luce, the mouse-colored mules. They all reached and drove down that old country road, Broadway, jamming traffic for fair as they hunted for a wagon yard, raged at by police-men until late in the rainy night, when kind Mr. Hibbard, a cop from Missouri, showed them into. a deserted fire-engine house...
...second day of the flood? worst in eight years?all traffic was suspended. There were no trains to Kobe or Yokohama. Uncountable thousands were homeless. Deaths were reported. Reservists were called out to guard the bridges. It rained...
...basic industries during July was 2% over June and 20% over July, 1924, and there is little doubt that August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country seems assured. Freight traffic in the railroads is both heavy and profitable. Lastly, retail sales have held up unusually well over the summer...
...suggestion was made, by the police because several recent accidents were the result of subnormal hearing on the part of certain pedestrians. The "Vox" society (70,000 members-all of whom have subnormal hearing) supplied all of its members with arm bands. The society finds that 12% of the traffic accidents have been due to subnormal hearing...