Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to the question of establishing a traffic court in Boston, Mr. Goode said: "I am strongly in favor of establishing a special traffic court for Boston, and believe that in time it will be necessary to prohibit practically all vehicle traffic in the retail district, except such as is absolutely necessary to the maintenance of business...
...Passenger traffic on the road has almost disappeared, and the movement of coal and pig iron has decreased...
...being operated as a 'plant facility' to the Ford Motor Co. . . . The Ford Company has exercised its power in both directions, both as a purchaser of goods shipped into Detroit and as a shipper of manufactured products out of Detroit. In brief, the one important factor in the increased traffic of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton since 1920 has been the tonnage diverted to it by the Ford Motor Co., which might otherwise have gone by alternate routes. . . . To sum up, no useful generalization concerning common carriers can be obtained from the records of plant facility railroads. But Henry Ford...
...Loening Aircraft Co. was terminated by a fatal accident to H. Cary Morgan (TIME, July 30), but the route remains a most promising one, and the airport (built at great expense by the Newport Chamber of Commerce) is still available. To avoid the treacherous air currents and busy traffic of the East River, or the lower Hudson, the planes would fly between Newport and New Haven, connecting with fast New York trains. Instead of a painful and lengthy journey from Newport to Wickford, Wickford to Wickford Junction by train, Wickford Junction to New Haven by boat, passengers would have...
Several students narrowly escaped injury yesterday afternoon when a wire falling from a telegraph pole across the trolley line on Broadway opposite Memorial Hall showered sparks in all directions. Traffic was effectually tied up for more than fifteen minutes, until a group of motormen policemen and students succeeded in fastening the hanging wire, and holding it until the repairing wire, and holding it until the repair truck from the track from the traction company arrived...