Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress may prevent interstate transportation from being used to bring into a state articles the traffic in which the state has constitutional authority to forbid, and has forbidden, in its internal commerce...
Just how important those words may prove, no man last week could say but they raised hopes in all those who want to revive NRA. For the Court had apparently given Congress carte blanche to forbid traffic in interstate commerce in any goods not produced under standards of minimum wages, maximum hours of labor, etc. etc., provided states can be induced to forbid the sale of such goods within their own borders...
...Manhattan last week three Pennsylvania truck drivers were fined $25 each for bringing bootleg coal into the city. There legitimate dealers, whom 'leggers undersell by $2 per ton, have prodded police into action, nearly stopped the illegal traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
...covering car-watchers. that soft-hearted judges usually let them off in court when they pleaded that they were "only trying to make an honest living." The Board of Aldermen at once took the logical step for cities blighted by the car-watching racket, by drafting amendments to the Traffic Code and City Charter forbidding it. Before they were passed, to City Magistrate Anthony F. Burke was brought 18-year-old Negro John Preston who admitted soliciting to watch cars, pleaded that no one had to accept his services. "That's a lot of horsefeathers!'' snapped...
...thing that is helping to raise steel operations at a time of the year when they generally fall is railroad buying. With traffic on the mend the railroads have started to buy rails and equipment in a big way for the first time in years. In the three months through November the railroads ordered 680,000 tons of rails and fastenings. In the same period of 1934 the total was a measly 36,000 tons. Orders continued to pour in last week, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe alone requiring 155,000 tons of rails and fastenings worth $6,135,000, biggest...