Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important highway planned was to stretch for 800 mi. from Asmara- linked to the Red Sea by a short Italian railroad-through Dessie to Addis Ababa. It was to be wide enough for four lines of traffic, durable enough to withstand big rains, which every summer since the days of Pharaoh have made Ethiopia a 100% impassable sea of mud. A second road 50 mi. long was to link Debarech in the country's deep interior and Gondar, an important town 25 mi. north of vital Lake Tana, which empties its waters into the Blue Nile, feeds British...
...against 2,905 for June 1936. President Paul Gray Hoffman of Studebaker Corp., head of the Automotive Safety Foundation, honored five States with a statement that last year's death toll of 37,800 would have been smaller by 13,000 if all States had traffic regulations as intelligent as those in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa...
...showed that 50,274 persons will die in 1950 if fatalities increase as much in the next 14 years as in the past 14. Hopefully, Florence I. Anderson, curly-haired, emphatic secretary of the East Bay Safety Council (Oakland, Calif.), declared that California's compulsory driving schools for traffic law violators were proving to be successful accident reducers...
...Indianapolis, Police Captain Lewis Johnson announced the results of municipal research intended to reveal the most efficient speed for expediting traffic. Answer: 23.5 m.p.h. Said Captain Johnson: "At that speed the safe distance between cars is 33 ft. and 2,600 cars can be moved past a given point within an hour...
...Cleef & Arpels brooch of overlapping leaves in small diamonds and rubies duplicating one bought by the Duke of Windsor for his Duchess: 225,000 francs ($8,300). . . . Greatest achievement from the standpoint of Exposition engineering: although the fair is in the very centre of Paris, normal city traffic is not interfered with, passes through subterranean tunnels or overhead bridges which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women's patent leather pumps with the tongues representing Leon Blum wearing a red tie, these shoes priced at 1,000 francs ($37.50) the pair...