Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Automobile racing on roads, once a major sport in the U. S., is now impractical because of heavy traffic. Last week in Manhattan entries closed for a unique event which its promoters hope will restore road racing to its onetime prestige: a .400-mile Columbus Day race for a new Vanderbilt Cup, on Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I. A field of 63 drivers, representing England, Italy, France. Germany and Australia as well as the U. S., will start qualifying trials this week...
...That the District Attorney of the County of New York and the Police Department of the City of New York continue in their efforts to end this criminal traffic...
Like steel, copper booms only when general business booms. Its price is determined by what the traffic will bear. For some time the differential between U. S. and foreign prices has been decreasing. Since June 1935, the U. S. price has risen 1 ¼? on the strength of gradually increasing demand from home industry. That demand is currently giving U. S. copper men their best year since 1930. Since the first of 1935, foreign copper has risen nearly 3? primarily on the strength of Europe's rearmament programs...
Harvard Square's traffic regulations must have been made an interesting study of nearly 100 picked officers from police departments of 14 states and 35 cities and towns in the East and Midwest, who spent an intensive two weeks course at the University. It was entitled the New England Officers' Training School...
...motorists held a convention and announced that they favor speeding. One from each State and the District of Columbia, the 49 were selected in local contests open only to persons who had driven at least 50,000 miles in ten years without accident or conviction of a traffic violation. Driving to Manhattan in their own cars at the expense of the American Automobile Association and the Commercial Investment Trust Safety Foundation, they settled down at the WaldorfAstoria for a three-day palaver about highway safety. Only one of their deliberations produced anything newsworthy: a poll of their open road driving...