Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end the jails were filled to overflowing. Nazi officials took over the Northwest Railway Station, unused for traffic, converted it into a makeshift concentration camp. Crucifixes on the walls of devout Kurt Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front Headquarters, which had now become Nazi Headquarters, were torn down by Nazis who stuck them up with guffaws in the water closets...
...stated that the union of Austria and Germany has "shifted the balance of power in Europe in favor of Germany and of might over right, but the Ansehluss will increase the problem of feeding the 78 million Germans in the enlarge Retch. Austria's foreign trade and tourist traffic will suffer severely because Hitler will clamp down the right German system of currency control and foreign trade regulation...
Harry R. DeSilva, head of driver training in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research, having supervised scientific driver tests on several control groups of 500 men apiece, reported yesterday that a 90 percent reduction in the accidents of his subjects had been shown after exhaustive clinic tests had been conducted in seventeen states...
...commission's pleasure be known. Instead of granting the 15% the railroads had asked or even the 10% that Wall Street had predicted, the commission authorized increases amounting to an average of about 5.3%,* remarking: "An increase of 15% generally based upon a normal volume of traffic, as proposed, is for a larger amount than is reasonably necessary to meet the purposes of the increase...
...railroad fuel and material costs rose $100,000,000, taxes $60,000,000, wages $140,000,000. Income, meanwhile, was reduced 1) by the ICC elimination on Jan. 1, 1937 of some $120,000,000 in emergency freight rates granted in the Depression, 2) by a tremendous drop in traffic during the current Recession (net operating income of Class I U. S. roads was off 82% in January this year). Last fall the ICC granted rate rises on special commodities (like motors and accessories) totaling some $70,000,000, but the roads immediately declared this insufficient, petitioned for 15% more...