Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a WPA badge and serving as a volunteer policeman at the scene of the discovery of the bodies was slim, 32-year-old Albert Dyer who had known the three little girls from his year's work as a traffic guard in front of the Centinela grammar school. At the discovery of the bodies, he asked men in the crowd not to smoke "out of respect to the dead." That night his 24-year-old wife Isabel helped him add the day's newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls...
...five-mile line between Skowhegan and an amusement park on the shore of what was then called Hayden's Pond. On the grounds was an auditorium in which were held spiritualist meetings. Mr. Swett thought that a company of actors would encourage a larger volume of traffic for the carline, and he was right...
...down to its first taste of martial law since the 1889 flood. C.I.O. picket lines, now unnecessary, were withdrawn. Despite Mayor Shields's cry of "usurpation," Colonel Janeway took over full police powers where they touched on the strike, sending the local police back to their beats or traffic posts. Otherwise the civil authority was not disturbed...
...season, some 290,000 automobiles used the speedy road annually during the next decade. It was the best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed at $1,100,000, to the public. President Robert Moses of the Long Island State Park Commission graciously accepted, said the old road would...
Interviewed by newshawks in his office at the Winterhalter School, Janitor Denhardt calmly displayed his two caps (one with a special officer's badge for directing traffic), a tin lunch bucket, a neat list of his day's duties beginning "Faucets to be repaired," a pile of English and German books. No ordinary janitor, Adam Denhardt was a German teacher for 33 years until he was pensioned off in 1924. When he and his wife Agate went to the U. S., leaving their three daughters behind, the only job he could get was one as "house father...