Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission referred the application for report to a group of experts. The experts found themselves agreeing largely with the objecting lines: That although the route would be shorter the present through routes handle the traffic adequately; that most of the traffic of the new route would be secured at the expense of existing routes, thereby reducing their revenues; that except for a slight time-saving to the public on through shipments, the proposed route was likely to produce little except new financial difficulties in railroad finance...
Next morning they turned up at the Capitol, silk hatted, with varicolored spats, and walked all over the bright white lines in sym-were tacked up in the great semicircles of seats, making it look metrical designs, and the diligently pointing arrows which the local Traffic Director had just painted on the pavement...
...incidental result of this phase of the inquiry has been to reveal the extent to which the illicit liquor traffic has become a means of comparative opulence to many families that formerly were on the records of relief agencies. In one New England industrial town a row of sombre tenements has been adorned by Stutz and Packard cars, purchased with the profits of a new-found illicit livelihood...
...East Orange, N. J., an automobile containing an old gentleman drew up beside a traffic policeman. The occupant asked the way to Perth Amboy, and received polite directions. "How many children have you?" asked the old man. "Three, sir," replied the officer. The old man stretched out a hand and dropped five dimes into the stout fist of the patrolman. Said...
Horses. Said The Christian Science Monitor: "73 per cent of trucks in the docking district of New York City are horse drawn. . . Haulage in New York is now on a time, not a mile, basis, due to the extreme congestion of traffic. . . It costs 6? per minute to operate a five-ton truck in the city, and only 2? a minute for a team and wagon of the same capacity. . . The matter of length of service also has an important bearing on this problem. The initial cost of a motor truck is three times as much as a team...