Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University has been given $10,000 per year for two years by the Studebaker Corporation as a fund for research into the best methods of regulating street traffic, it was announced last night...
...miles of lines (about one-ninth of the total U. S. mileage) be scrapped. In the southwest, in the region he would operate his system, 4,000 miles should be ripped up.* Where transportation, passenger or freight, was needed for isolated communities, motor trucks and buses could handle the traffic more economically and more profitably than could a skimped railroad, under present conditions...
Railroads have begun to make use of the motor industry, whose inroads on freight and passenger traffic railroad officials have regarded with more or less apathy. President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central told the Toledo (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce how great those inroads have been. Railroads operate over more than a quarter-million miles of track which they have had to lay down and maintain. Motors run over three million miles of roads supported by taxation. Some of the $360,000,000 of taxes ($1,000,000 a day) which U.S. railroads pay yearly go to maintain...
...this situation President Crowley sees benefit to the railroads. The public is habituated by motor cars to traveling. What railroads lose from short-haul traffic, they gain in the long haul. The Twentieth Century Limited yearly carried as many passengers as are booked first class on all the trans-atlantic steamers, and runs 2,000 sections a year...
...commerce flow, reached 1,187,011 for the week of Sept. 18, the American Railway Association reported last week after the normal 21 days necessary to consolidate the country's statistics. That week was not only the record week of all time for such freight traffic; it was also the tenth successive week, and the seventeenth so far this year, when more than a million freight cars were loaded. Only once since the year's start (the week of Jan. 2) did car loadings fall below...