Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sharp at 8 p. m. in Chicago one evening last week, 450 of the 800 city-employed electrical workers pulled their switches, walked out on strike. Out blinked all 94.558 municipal street lights. Off went all traffic lights in the Loop. Along the Chicago River, which slices through the city's midsection, 38 of the 55 drawbridges rose up to stay. Honking automobiles, clanging streetcars, cursing pedestrians piled up at the open bridgeheads, turned to fight their way back. Policemen shouted into dead telephones; their inter-communicating system was useless. State Street was bright with its private lighting system...
...fares was regarded as courageous by other U. S. airlines in the face of the popular acclaim which greeted Transcontinental & Western Air last autumn when it cut its fares to railroad levels. Though rivals scoffed, TWA last week complacently claimed that its low fares were proving ideal. TWA passenger traffic in November, first month the low fares were in effect, was 122% greater than in November...
Those making the test are Harry DeSilva of the Traffic Research Bureau, David B. Dill, associate professor of Industrial Psychology, Dr. William H. Forbes of the Fatigue Laboratory, and F. M. Van Deventer of the Cities Service Refining Company, as well as the two students who have not been named...
...Illinois, State law prescribes that pedestrians must walk on the left of a highway, facing traffic. Jimmy Maas was skating on the right. But, ruled Judge Hunter, skates are a wheeled mechanical device and the boy's shoes were not touching the ground. Hence he was a vehicle and had a right to the right-hand side of the road...
United Air Lines is proud of many things-that it is the oldest U. S. airline; that it flies more passenger plane-miles and traffic ton-miles than any other airline; that it makes money. Not the least of United's prides has been its record on its most popular run-the 363 miles between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since acquiring twin-motored transports seven years ago. United has flown as many as 30 planes a day over this mountainous, two-hour route with a reliability comparable to the Pennsylvania Railroad's service between New York...