Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even when Max Miller "covered the waterfront" for the Sun in pre-Depression years were 22 commercial ships able to moor in San Diego at one time. The resultant traffic congestion would be unthinkable...
...buildings and roads of Greenbelt. Heartily he applauded the modernistic little houses which will be rented to 1,000 low-paid white-collar families at $20 to $40 per month; the double-horseshoe plan on which the town is being laid out, with underpasses for pedestrians and with automobile traffic routed to the outskirts; the surrounding "Greenbelt" of farms to furnish food and guard against industrial intrusion; the community centre, post office, schools, shops, athletic field; the 22-acre artificial lake which, as the president watched, was stocked with Federal fish...
...appeal especially to the Government to assist our Pacific and Far Eastern shipping!" cried Lord Lloyd. "The traffic between Bombay and Japan, not many years ago, was entirely British. Now it is 80% Japanese...
...highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were 732,005 trucks. Said Truckman Winchester last week: "This year sales should run 15% to 20% higher, depending largely on the course that local legislation takes in restricting highway freight traffic...
...doctor once told City Traffic Engineer Ralph Dorsey of Los Angeles that in night driving a motorist's eyes become so sensitized to the white stripe painted down the middle of many highways that he follows it automatically, is thus likely to be drawn into intersectional crashes. The doctor suggested that there should be a signal to the eye which would warn the brain of an intersection ahead. Last week, Engineer Dorsey's idea of a good signal was amazing drivers at some dozen dangerous crossings in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley section...