Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Sanctions against Italy. Yet if the League Covenant were revamped to do away with Article XVI, which authorized the use of force in applying Sanctions, then the League could continue as an amiable debating society, publishing valuable works on the extent of white slavery, the opium traffic, and the migration of whales...
What Chairman William Averell Harriman had to say to his stockholders, however, was bigger news. In his report he outlined a series of new U. P. services that mark one of the few smart steps any railroad has yet taken toward regaining lost passenger traffic. Able son of an able father, William Averell Harriman has been familiar with his heritage since he worked in U. P.'s Omaha shops during vacations from Yale. Long a director, he was made board chairman in 1932. One of the first things new Chairman Harriman realized was that railroads are susceptible to smart...
...Herring, Political Issues and Political Parties; (b) The Analysis of Contemporary Government Agencies, John D. Black, The New England Dairy Situation; John D. Black and Seymour E. Harris, The Farm Credit Administration; and Miller McClintock, Organization of State Motor Vehicle Departments, and American Police Methods in the Reduction of Traffic Accidents and Congestion; (c) Evaluation of the Economic Bases of Control, John D. Black, Production Economics: With Attention to the Problem of Agricultural Control of Production...
...sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to Cuba, pursued by O'Banion gunmen. When he finally screwed up enough courage to return to Chicago, he was riddled with bullets after a wild chase through Loop traffic. Recovered, he went to jail for seven months for operating a brewery. Then he scurried back to Italy. On his return to the U. S. a few years later, he found that Capone was Chicago's No. 1 racketeer. Torrio retreated to New York, where his name was intermittently...
...evening messenger, whose duty it has always been to carry the day's dispatches to the King out of town. In deference to Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha's safety campaign (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), the motorcycle messengers were expressly ordered to obey all traffic laws. Edward's new motorcyclists will be listed as King's Home Service Messengers and are not to be confused with the King's Messengers attached to the Foreign Office. As his badge of office a King's Messenger carries a small silver medal engraved with. a running...