Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Errors in the article "Last Dollar" under Business in the issue of Dec. 13, simply must be corrected. Referring to lake ships you say long round-topped whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette...
...successful at the Garrick method of verisimilitude in parts. Miss Hayes believes these rather exceptions than otherwise. Their success she thought due to the individual success of the particular actor in a particular role. Indeed, the idea of Alfred Lunt as a whimsical gentleman one week and a traffic cop or bootlegger the next, did not appeal to the erstwhile Cleopatra...
...just the moment for such an exhibition. Of recent weeks the Manhattan press had been full of controversy over the desirability, from the standpoints of health, traffic, economics and art, of steepling and peopling further that rock-bottomed little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed annually for a decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction...
...Traffic clogging was the major grievance of the anti-skyscraperites. It might be all very true that working "far aloft, away from distracting noise, breathing the pure ozone of the firmament" was desirable, but after all most working people liked to go home at night and it was not only no fun, but definitely dangerous, to have your ribs caved in during the morning and evening subway stampede. The New York World, in a series of editorials discouraging further skyscrapers, discovered perhaps the most formidable charge of all against them. It found experienced Realtor W. Bourke Harmon stating that only...
...Already installed in Chicago, where the commodious, ingenious and handsome Wacker Drive carries traffic on two levels along the once shabby banks of the Chicago River in the city's heart...