Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presses is a special report of the Harvard Street Traffic Bureau's findings from extensive driver clinic tests. Two facts are revealed: (1) that on the average, drivers who have had accidents do worse on the tests than others, and (2) that the tests themselves have reduced the number of accidents...
...need? It needs, says Mr. Kennedy, 23 services to 600 ports in 120 foreign lands. It does not need tramps. It does not need superliners-("The American Merchant Marine is a service proposition"). Overseas air lines, over which the Commission asked jurisdiction, may cut sharply into the superliner traffic. "The American contribution to North Atlantic travel should be fireproof, vibrationless, attractive and economical vessels of reasonable size and speed, distinguished by the utmost in safety and comfort . . . available for National defense. . . ." For the rest, the U. S. should build fairly standardized combination freight & passenger types. However, the Commission...
...slow. Somewhat responsible were the railroads which by their delay in rate adjustment, encouraged the Central Valley's shippers to continue shipping produce destined for boats on down to San Francisco instead of to the nearer port of Stockton. But the big factor is that water-borne traffic follows a comparatively crude rate structure which does not discriminate in short distances. Cargoes move from Europe or the Atlantic Coast to ports on the Pacific Coast at the same rate for Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle. In 1933, however, Director Allin was instrumental in obtaining four amendments...
...Street's 18 Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom he invariably outwits. His patter songs are masterpieces of non sequitur, leaping with dizzy unpredictability from Dixie dithyrambs to stirring on-to-war blather, with interpolations on foreign and domestic affairs. Louder than, and about as funny as Jimmy Durante, Jack...
Other joyous spectators poured onto the field and held a snake dance, led by the hand, while red flares, held by cheerleaders, illuminated the scene. Cheering and laughing, the crowd swept ontor of the packed stadium, across the Lars Anderson Bridge, and into the Square. There they tied up traffic for 15 minutes as the band played several selections...