Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that it is a pretty fair index of the general efficiency and alertness of the Cambridge Traffic Department in regard to the way that automobile and pedestrain traffic is taken care of at the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Plympton St. I have been the witness of six or seven accidents there and have seen the results of many others, and with the accident of a week ago Sunday in which a Hudson coach was overturned and two people injured, one of them very seriously, I have come to the conclusion that either the Traffic Department is originally...
...have noticed than while the Police force is most vigilant about traffic rules and parking spaces, they don't seem to be able to do anything about the much more serious petty thievery that is carried on around the Square in the way of horns and blankets and spare tires that students leave in supposed safety, by our neighborly guttersnipes...
...arranges patriotic parades and celebrations, issues permits and invitations, makes traffic regulations, erects pavilions, receives delegations, reviews high school cadets, and serves on floor committees of charity balls...
...Walking in the shopping district of the Capital, the President observed an elderly blind man groping his way through the traffic. He went to him directly, instructed a secret service man to see the blind man across the street in safety, and followed to see that it was well done...
According to officials of the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, freight congestion at Jacksonville-rightly known as the gateway to Florida-has backed up traffic as far north as Savannah and Atlanta. Indeed ever since Oct. 29 the Seaboard has found it necessary to declare an embargo on all carload freight except food for human and animal consumption, railway supplies, tank cars and petroleum products. After elaborate precautions, householders can get less than carload lots of household effects through in about three weeks. An especial dearth of automobiles in Florida is reported, owing...