Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First business at hand for Premier van Zeeland this week was International. Representatives of the "Oslo Group" arrived for four days of conference and Reich Economic Minister Hjalmar Schacht was due from a "World Bank" meeting at Basle to urge more traffic in raw materials between Belgium and Germany...
...Capitol. To give the building due impressiveness, the irregular Tidal Basin will be drained, its cherry trees uprooted and transplanted. Three formal reflecting pools will be constructed to take the Basin's place, new streets will have to be built and paved, new traffic arteries allocated. Washington engineers estimate that nearly five times the voted $3,000,000 must be spent before the scheme is completed...
...variation of Paderewski's Minuet in G. Twilight in Turkey expresses, according to Composer Scott's program notes: ". . . a crowded square . . . twilight is setting in ... Arab barters with Arab . . . prayer time is approaching . . . camels are resting ... a group of dancing girls are entertaining ... an Englishman gets lost . . . traffic is heavy . . . the afternoon heat is still felt. . . ." Recorded but not yet released are equally odd Scott numbers called Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner...
...metropolitan affars, of which he is a member, has agreed to report another important measure in which he is a member, has agreed to report another important measure in which he is greatly interested. That is a plan drawn by the engineers of the metropolitan district commission for a traffic overpass and traffic circle underneath the overpass, at the Cambridge end of the Cottage Farm bridge...
Senator Blanchard has discussed his bill with members of the committee on metropolitan affairs, who have agreed that increased traffic which will be attracted to the Cambridge side of the river, by the construction of the Cottage Farm bridge overpass, will necessitate the circle at the Larz Anderson bridge, for traffic towards Brighton and Newton...