Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas, inspired by his California colleagues, an Associated Press correspondent telegraphed: "Bullfrogs migrating from one swamp to another caused a traffic jam on a highway near Houston . . . almost impossible to get through...
These, together with the Colorado & Southern, which brings them northern Texas cotton traffic, are the "Hill" roads that James Jerome ("Empire builder") Hill (1838-1916) developed. Now, with the Western Pacific which connects the Burlington directly to San Francisco and in which Mr. James bought controlling interest last summer (TIME, June 21), they are more aptly called "James" roads. The Hill descendants have never become active financially...
...stands, a heavily ornamental obstacle to traffic even to such privileged characters as fine ladies who ride white horses and who have rings on their fingers and bells on their toes. Therefore it will be removed...
...Mary's River from Lake Superior, and swaggered back to her winter's work of hauling railroad cars across the Strait of Mackinac. Under her Captain F. A. Bailey and with the aid of tugs she had broken up the river ice and thus released the worst traffic jam in Great Lakes' shipping history...
...often wrongly applied to any lake carrier. Sculptor Daniel Chester French (designer of the Lincoln at Washington, the John Harvard at Cambridge) followed this popular conception when, in his symbolic group before the unwashed Cleveland postoffice, he placed a whaleback on the arm of Commerce to typify modern lake traffic...