Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cause: both accidents were the result of traffic accidents...
...embusqués, are inclined to talk now of the bombing of London as a major operation of the War and shiver at the thought, whereas in fact only 670 were killed-a mere fleabite in these Belisha days. In 1928 more than double that number were killed [in traffic accidents] in the streets of London. Now the returns are astronomical, but because of the dangers of the streets I do not sleep under...
...finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table d'hôte that evening, Jane Dale leaves the table. Nor is her appetite stimulated by a legal complication possible in Louisiana whose laws are based on the Code Napoleon. She admits...
...mile trip from Yokohama to Tokyo a Japanese soldier stood beside the railway track every 60 feet, rigid at attention as the young man who was once plain Mr. Henry Pu Yi passed. In Tokyo all rail traffic in & out of Tokyo station was stopped for two hours; the entire railway station district was cleared. And Japan's Son-of-Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they...
...Western, U. S. railroads have habitually increased their fixed charges when they should have reduced them; they have sold bonds when more prudent corporations were selling stock; they have paid dividends when they should have been paying off debts; they have sunk millions in improvements that failed to up traffic or revenues; they have frittered away millions trading (for "strategic reasons") in stocks of other roads...