Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down upon Colorado last week swept the worst September blizzard in years, smothering Denver with 17 inches of snow, disrupting traffic throughout the State. Up from El Paso, Tex. about the same time climbed a single-motored Lockheed Vega belonging to Varney Air Transport, Inc., passenger-mail line between El Paso and Pueblo, Colo. Meeting bad weather, Pilot C. H. Chidlaw landed at Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending...
...Rotary traffic, which has been in operation since last spring was abandoned yesterday by order of Chief of Police Timothy H. Leahy. The new system had been considerably criticized by many people including Harvard Square merchants, who claimed that trade was lost...
Leahy claimed that traffic would always be congested in the Square because of the presence of the subway station and had recommended to Mayor John D. Lynch that the rotary traffic be discontinued...
Speakers include Maxwell N. Halsey, Assistant Director of the Bureau for Street Traffic Research, Flavel Shurtleff, counsel of the American Planning and Civic Association, Sir Raymond Un-win, former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Frederick J. Adams, Assistant Professor of City Planning...
...usual, bibbing Legionaries were up to their traditional tricks-stopping automobiles and street cars for "inspection," tossing water from hotel windows, turning in false fire alarms, smashing plate glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of the Legionaries' advancing years, the presence of their wives and a curt preliminary warning from Commander Ray Murphy to "act your age," such highjinks were far less frequent than at past conventions. Serious members were sobered by knowledge that its 18th convention marked a critical milestone in the Legion...