Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, it was pointed out, unless students follow the traffic regulations governing the use of the two doorways, congestion is likely to be as bad as ever. The "one-way traffic" plan set up by the University, contemplates a constant flow from south to north. Incoming students to classes in the building are asked to use the old, or south door, on what has come to be regarded as the front of the hall, while students leaving classes are requested to leave via the new exit on the north side...
...American Legion is in New York. Five hundred thousand jostling uniforms take possession of midtown Gotham. Traffic comes to a standstill. False alarms are turned in from a score of fire boxes. Signs are torn from trolley cars. Police confiscate revolvers, even a one-pound cannon. Two legionnaires die unknown and violent deaths. Soon there will be interminable military music, and for 18 1-2 hours the conquerors of New York are marching up Fifth Avenue...
Long a sore point with New Yorkers has been Newark's virtual monopoly as the terminal of the Metropolitan district's passenger, mail & commercial air traffic. No New Yorker has had so long or so sharp a knife out for Newark as New York's flying...
Newark in traffic volume leads not only the U. S. but the world. This year close to 300,000 passengers, over 4,000,000 Ib. of mail and over 2,500,000 Ib. of express will be handled. One hundred and twenty planes a day roar off Newark's runways compared with less than 100 out of Berlin, London or Paris. But Newark is 14 miles and 40 minutes from the centre of Manhattan, suffers the resentful opposition of every loyal flying New Yorker...
Shipping, Meanwhile the trade routes of the world were being altered. Canadian Pacific, Dollar and Nippon Yusen Kaisha Lines dropped Shanghai from their schedules. Passenger traffic to China had ceased almost entirely, although traffic to Japan suffered little. Marine underwriters discontinued (or raised to prohibitive heights) war risk insurance on all cargoes to be unloaded at Chinese ports. This promptly affected exports, for banks generally refused to advance credit on uninsured shipments. New York seamen contributed to the trouble by agitating for war risk pay when serving on ships in "endangered waters." The Dollar Line had one consolation: fat fees...