Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With threats of Government ownership, increased competition from automobiles, buses, airlines, and a steady decline in passenger traffic, the railroads pulled themselves together, struck back with airconditioning, streamlining, high speeds, lower fares (TIME, May 13). The problem was not so much to popularize travel or sell individual tours as to make rail-riding look attractive once more. To do that job, 26 railroads and Pullman Co. combined for the first time in a joint institutional advertising campaign which comes to a climax next week with Railroad Week...
...manufacturers of ice-making machinery will probably profit. Almost no modern ice-making machinery has been purchased for nearly two years because installation required an NRA permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect a slackening in the recent heavy demand for labor-saving equipment now that wages & hours are purely a matter of private negotiation between employer and employe. Yet employes in machine tool plants would...
...intensive study and work on problems of city planning and of traffic control, the Graduate School of City Planning and the Harvard Traffic Bureau have announced a $1200 fellowship...
...occasion was the state visit of paunchy, pompous Senhor Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, to big, soldierly President Agustin P. Justo of Argentina. In 1933 President Justo paid a call on President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro which was notably successful in furthering trade and tourist traffic between the two countries. Now with suggestions from the Silver Jubilee in London, and a few original ideas of her own. Argentina was set to give her Brazilian neighbors a return welcome they would not soon forget...
Twenty-seven thousand Argentine school children, piping Brazilian patriotic airs in Portuguese, marched in one parade. President Vargas snipped a ribbon to open the newly widened Avenida Corrientes, driven at great expense through the middle of the business district. For eight city blocks it was roped off from traffic while 14 tango bands kept citizens dancing till dawn...