Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were sentenced to jail for 30 days and a negro for six months in the Traffic Court today...
...Paris, the Council of the League of Nations continued its session. Among the subjects discussed: slavery, traffic in arms, opium, Russian refugees...
...Traffic in Arms. In a letter to the U. S. Government, Hjalmar Branting, ex-Premier of Sweden and Acting President of the Council, called attention to the nonratification by the U. S. of the St. Germain Convention, which aimed at limiting the traffic in arms by restricting private firms in manufacture and sale. The letter was to the effect that the U. S., through declining to ratify the Convention, had kept other arms-trading nations (Britain, France, Italy in particular) from ratifying the measure, although she had expressed "cordial sympathy" with the efforts to restrict the trade. The League proposed...
Opium. The Council decided to call two conferences on the opium traffic at Geneva, in November, 1924. One will consider the limitation of the manufacture of the drug to scientific and medical needs, the other will consider the strategy of a war on opium. It was decided to name a committee to prepare plans for the conferences...
That the recent steady rise of railroad securities was not without good grounds, the annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission has clearly shown. While the unprecedented volume of traffic threw heavy tasks on the roads, they have come through the year with "unequalled performance" of service. While rates have been in some cases decreased, at an estimated saving to shippers of $500,000,000, the heavy traffic has proved profitable to almost all roads...