Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston City Legislature has at last heard the facts concerning the much-discussed "Loop" thoroughfare which is proposed to alleviate Boston's intolerable traffic situation. The needed improvement has the strong support of almost every business organization and the silent improvement of most of the public. Up to date its existence has been precarious. Mr. Lomasney the political boss of the West End, although he was instrumental in putting through the very costly widening of Cambridge Street, did his best to spike this project when it, at last reached a legislative hearing...
...would not legalize the drug trade for some years to come. European nations, she discovered, found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies; and it stimulates the necessary immigration of cheap Chinese labor...
Dazed, he looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...
Consider, too, the sociological import of such an event. The working man may abandon overalls in favor of riding breeches, after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York...
...fundamental trouble with the St. Paul is overcompetition from the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, the Canadian transcontinental lines and shipping lines through the Panama Canal. The northwest territory is overbuilt with railroads in proportion to its traffic needs; and St. Paul, as the latest comer, has fared worst in competition. President Harry E. Byram naturally is preserving as cheerful a countenance concerning the approaching bond maturity date as he can; and even yet the bonds may be extended or exchanged in some way so as to avoid a receivership. But, since the immediate crisis is financial, the real future...