Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most dangerous sporting events in the world is the annual Thousand Mile automobile race round Italy- from Brescia to Brescia, over roads dotted with ordinary traffic and lined with thousands of spectators. When, during the race last week, two of the 143 roaring racers zoomed off the road, killing ten bystanders and injuring 32, the Italian Government decreed an end to the race they instituted twelve years ago as a test of speed and daring...
...University, speaking through Harald Westergaard, Dean of the School of Engineering, yesterday officially recognized the fact that the Bureau for Street Traffic Research is leaving Harvard...
...what he admitted was a 'legalistie' statement, Dean Westergaard said, "All present appointments in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research will have expired September 1. If the Corporation makes no new appointments or reappointments by that time, the Bureau will automatically cease to function...
...Traffic Research Bureau has no close financial connections with the University. Its support comes almost entirely from the American Automobile Manufacturers' Association and the individual motor car companies, which pay the operational expenses and contribute the fellowships for study under the Bureau. At the most, Harvard furnishes a few facilities. Hence, the Bureau has no restraining obligations here, is perfectly free to leave whenever it so desires. Any debt which it owes to Harvard for publicity has been amply repaid in kind...
Most important consideration of all is that an organization like the Traffic Research Bureau which is directly concerned with the public welfare should function as efficiently as possible. If Yale and New Haven can offer more adequate facilities, and the migration indicates that they can, this object is better attained. Undoubtedly, one important gain is closer proximity to New York City, where several of the Bureau's directors do much of their work, and the newspapers of which have greater publicity value than do Boston's Regrets there must certainly be in Harvard, but mutterings of foul play or infidelity...