Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercial airport which handles the heavy air traffic in & out of the Capital of the U. S. has been cursed by pilots for a decade. Fifty Eastern Airliners and 16 American Airliners take off from or land at the Washington Airport every day. Yet it is small, partly undrained and bumpy, and the approaches are menaced by factories, high tension lines, a bluff, several structures on the field including a blimp hangar. A highway runs across the field; a military guard and stoplights are supposed to halt automobiles when planes are coming in or going out. For years Congressional committees...
...average pedestrian poised impatient on the curb it may seem a simple matter to determine whether an intersection should have a traffic light. Actually, however, that is a decision of almost Ein- steinian difficulty according to Assistant Engineer John T. Gibala of the New York City police, who last week explained in Spring 3100 (New York police monthly) the formula he has devised to solve the problem. If 3,000 intersections need traffic lights, but there is money for only 150 his is a sure-fire way of learning which crossings need lights most...
Scene of most U. S. accidents in 1936, as for many years past, was the home. Slipping in bathtubs, electric shocks, scaldings, poisonings, burns and cuts from kitchen utensils killed 38,500 people. Close runner-up to home was the highway. Traffic accidents caused 37,800 deaths. Most dangerous State to live in was Arizona. Best accident record was that of children from 5 to 14. The hurry of better business last year caused 18,000 workmen to lose their lives. In 1935, occupational deaths totaled...
...indeed. I cannot urge too strongly that every possible precaution be taken to make the figures for 1937 prove that at last we have had a safe and sane Fourth of July." Preliminary reports of the July 4th holiday weekend showed 437 deaths in 46 States: 104 drownings, 247 traffic deaths, 86 others including six from fireworks. New Jersey's authorities hoped to provide a salutary example to other States by threatening to jail (90 days) and fine ($100) any one who sold or even possessed any kind of fireworks, including cap pistols and sparklers...
Bertha knows all about dope and the dope traffic, but says she never became an addict herself, though she tried marijuana once. To appease her insatiable curiosity she became a prostitute, found the job unexciting. "I just felt completely wornout, as though I'd finished an unusually hard day's work." The earnings varied from $50 to $200 a week, but pimps and madams took all but a Woolworth-store residue. Arrested after two months' work, 30 men a day, Bertha found herself pregnant, with two venereal diseases. While waiting for her confinement she worked...