Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week went the first transcontinental airway ever born full grown. It was also the first airline to span Canada, bridging the 2,688 miles between Montreal and Vancouver. The 130,000,000 U. S. citizens have only just begun to support their three transcontinental air routes. Whether the passenger traffic from 11,120,000 Canadians could support one did not bother Trans-Canada's operators. The line is Government-controlled and should pay its way by airmail revenue alone...
...Boston, a housewife telephoned police to request that her street be closed to traffic for three hours. Reason: she was baking a surprise cake for her husband, feared that passing cars might cause it to fall...
Oakland East and North-SUSPEND ALL TRAFFIC EXCEPT SHIP TO GROUND...
Slickly engineered, with a minimum of turns and steep grades, the twin three-lane strips of the Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...
Unless Herr Hitler changes his policy this will be necessarily true, for while canals and airways have prospered under the Nazis, along with highways, railroads have gone to pot. German State Railways, once the snappiest system in Europe, is no longer able to handle its traffic...