Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...
...making them unsanitary. He suggested that the dumping be farther at sea. But already the offal barges must travel 42 miles to their dumping ground and are able to make but one trip in 24 hours; they cannot go farther and still accommodate the existing volume of their traffic...
Then to the palace in horse carriages, guarded by sailors and naval cadets. King Haakon was effusive, bestowed decorations. Then to the Grand Hotel, all traffic in the streets coming to a halt while the cortege passed. Out on a balcony, Amundsen smiled his thanks; soon after, he sat down with the others to a handsome luncheon furnished by the Aero Club. More speeches; The Star Spangled Banner in honor of Pilot Ellsworth...
Crawling around on the surface of the earth, burrowing underground, seem absurd occupations for creatures that have learned to fly. Soon men will move their houses and traffic into the upper air entirely. So predicted one Frederick Kiesler, young Viennese architect exhibiting at the Decorative Arts Exposition in Paris, last week. Kiesler had invented nothing, discovered nothing; but his artist-dream seemed hardly less logical and likely than did the skyscraper, the ocean-crossing dirigible, the hovering helicopter, 25 years ago. In the Kiesler dream, enormous steel towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms...
...Providence, a law was enforced by the state police: motorists traveling on the main state thoroughfares must maintain a speed of 35 miles an hour or get off the road to avoid blocking traffic...