Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman with a long white beard and brown dressing gown, dropping a festoon of red paper on a plaster foot and a jumble of wire, was stopping the sidewalk traffic on Philadelphia's busy Chestnut Street last week. He was in a window of Blum's department store, and across the street in Wanamaker's windows were some equally strange displays. Philadelphia's radio station KYW broadcast two haywire programs called "Love on Wheels" and "Love is a Dream," and Philadelphia's newspapers were filled with angry letters-to-the-editor. The answer was that...
...were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most spectacular bid for patronage was the 2? base passenger fare, inaugurated by southern and western roads where the traffic is light and forced on all roads last June by the Interstate Commerce Commission over the loud protests of the Pennsylvania, New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford. Last week New York Central reported that passenger revenue had climbed from...
...Imperial Valley. Los Angeles awoke under a pall of smoke from millions of smudges. It was so dark that lights were burned till afternoon. San Diego had its first snowfall in history (the Government meteorologist described it as "soft hail"). A second night of low temperatures followed. Traffic crawled and tangled on the darkened roads, while hundreds of oil trucks were given the right of way, carrying fuel to the smudges. All this meant industrial tragedy to California's citrus fruit industry (save for oil, the biggest business in the State). The crop destruction had only one peer...
...with scarlet fever. At "Barley Thorpe," Oakham, Rutland-shire, England the sporting and highly self-appreciative Earl of Lonsdale celebrated his 80th birthday by describing how in 1879 he "most certainly" outboxed the late, great Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan. Famed for his loud habit of bawling to British traffic policemen, "Can't you see I'm LONSDALE!", the loud Peer boasted: "I shall be glad to give any details I can of my encounter with 'Jim' Sullivan. ... I knocked him out in just under six rounds. I had a broken hand when...
...carrier's affairs the Mellons got about 40%, which is enough to dominate almost any railroad's council. Among the fantastic motives ascribed to the Mellons in their purchase last week was the wish to even a mythical grudge against Pennsylvania R. R.-by diverting traffic. Aside from the fact that the Mellons are big Pennsy stockholders (young Richard Mellon is a Pennsy director), the Mellons have another good reason to keep on the best terms with as many railroads as possible: they are heavily interested in National Lumber & Creosoting Co., which treats railroad ties and telegraph poles...