Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was more than the usual number of traffic snarls in Harvard Square one morning last week. To add to the confusion the subway kept belching shoppers and workers late to the office, some of whom were absorbed by the clumsy cluster of orange busses and some of whom had to insinuate themselves between the cars toward the sidewalk...
With suppressed glee the office of the Traffic Research Bureau at 29 Holyoke street announced yesterday that a grand total of six students had answered the call for volunteers for a glare-blindness test. They didn't expect...
...railroad adage holds that "the faster a passenger train moves, the more other traffic is retarded." Reason: when an express meets or overtakes a local or freight on single-tracked lines, the slower train has to be shunted temporarily onto a siding. In the East, almost universal adoption of double tracks has eliminated this trouble, but in the West many railroads are still largely single-tracked. Last week, one such road, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, announced that it had reversed the old adage. Burlington has cut train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which...
Because he saw a bright future for rail traffic in the "golden triangle" of his part of the Southwest, Railman Couch last week purchased working control of Kansas City Southern Ry. from Paine, Webber & Co. The Manhattan brokers would reveal no details of the deal, but a good guess was that Senator Joe Robinson's good friend Harvey Couch and his associates paid up to $2,250,000 for the stock once held by the Brothers Van Sweringen...
...Bren is a dumb Irish cop named O'Malley, noted for his hard-headed tactics in handing out tickets for minor traffic violations and for his strict enforcement of the out-of-date Book of Ordinances. When he refuses to case up on the minor offenders, he is transferred to a safety beat which consists of playing nursemaid to a group of schoolchildren crossing streets...