Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thrown, and fire hoses are trained on the strikers. As a result the slightest spark may ignite the magazine and precipitate serious riots. On the other hand the police of Lodi and Garfield do not oppose the strikers. On the contrary, they march alongside the parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What a contrast to the stupid methods of Passaic and Clifton where reporters are assaulted, where strikers are sent to jail for thirty days for swearing, although the police wear no haloes, and where the chief...
...proposed merger because of its greater geographical extent and traffic possibilities would have a more stable earning capacity than have the five members that would join...
...Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic has been sleeping over ten years. You can't expect much from somnambulists. With one notable exception, LaGuardia, these committeemen are so dry they will not allow anyone to 'drink in' the morning air, and even prohibit a golf bag to have a 'stick...
...patrolmen who were watching from the sidewalk. There was snow in the gutters. Small boys had a fine time pelting motorcycle policeman. Much merry horseplay, too, of holding back light cars that were trying to get up the grade to the Botany plant. Officers tried to clear the traffic. They drove their sputtering motorcycles round and round. Women jeered, dingy men guffawed. ... It was a signal the patrolmen had been waiting for. They charged the crowd with their clubs...
...commission. Coastwise shipping struck him as a good field. He was right. At present transatlantic shipping is unprofitable. Passenger carriers move at a dead loss. Coast trading has been earning so well that it has become crowded with ships. More frequent sailings have stimulated both passenger and freight traffic...