Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer and Nazi patriots was the progress made in striping Germany with the finest highspeed road system (Reichsautobahnen) in the world. For last week any German motorist could drive from the Baltic Sea at Travemünde to Salzburg, at the foot of the Alps, without slowing for cross traffic or tooting his horn for an intersection. With almost the same ease, he could start at Cologne, near the Belgian border, zip past Berlin and wind up at the Polish frontier...
Shortly before Christmas, Wal sent several hundred unemployed out into London's Oxford Circus to dramatize their appeals for employment on public works and an increase in winter relief allowances. Suddenly tossing themselves on the ground like so many Holy Rollers, they tangled traffic into an unholy mess. Two days later he sent some of his roughest members into one of London's smoothest spots, the Ritz. He almost got a coffined umbrella labeled HE DID NOT GET WINTER RELIEF into No. 10 Downing Street...
...Graphic's original plan was no pipe dream but a solidly considered plan of rapid transit. It suggested that the city utilize the drained Miami & Erie canal for the underground mileage, cover it with a high-speed roadway for surface traffic. Even in the Graphic days the two-square-mile Basin was beginning to be crowded and Cincinnatians, whose town has more hills and valleys than any other in the Union, were putting their homes back on the hilltops to get above and beyond the city's industrial smoke...
...quipped, in 1870, that frock-coated John Insley Blair built railroads to use steel from his mills, towns to provide traffic for his railroads. One of the great railroad barons, he helped found the Chicago & North Western, the Lackawanna and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri. In 1890, at 88, he capped his great career by founding the famed banking firm of Blair...
Harvard, he mumbled to himself, side-stepping Radcliffe cross-traffic, gathered living art from the world over and than went out of its way to keep anyone from seeing it. If Vag had been in a rational frame of mind he would have remembered that the Spirit of Sun Vat Sen outside Boylston rather exploded this theory, but he was, as the careful reader has already noted, in an irrational frame of mind...