Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 8], may I suggest how to handle such cases in the future? Call out the fire department; deluge the waiting, watching mob with high-pressure streams of water. This would have three salutary effects: 1) wash away the morbidity of the mob; 2) clear the streets for traffic; 3) divert the would-be suicide's attention from his own real or fancied woes. Turn about is fair play...
...benefit thousands of honest salesmen, many of whom have already found it much more convenient to ride in a comfortable air-conditioned train to the city in which they are to make their calls and there find an excellently conditioned car for their convenience, rather than bucking pounding traffic over long city to city jumps...
...their airliners out of the "war area" over the North Sea. The German air services meekly obeyed. But the proud Royal Dutch Airlines responded with a bristling reply to the British Air Ministry: THE NORTH SEA BELONGS TO NO NATION AND NOBODY IS EMPOWERED TO CLOSE IT TO INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC. IF ANY BRITISH FIGHTERS INTERCEPT OUR LINERS . . . THERE WILL BE SERIOUS COMPLAINTS. There were no interceptions...
...Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear holed up in a cool corner. Driven out by a machine-gun barrage, Too Tough reared up to her full eight feet, lunged at Zoo Superintendent...
...Palmer Davidson of Montclair, N. J., tired of traffic noises outside his house, complained to Mayor William E. Speers that he had taken to sleeping with clamshells clamped over his ears...