Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Powers. The Memel dispute involved the former East Prussian port of Memel and the mouth of the Niemen River, full control over which was sought by the Lithuanian Republic. Norman H. Davis, Manhattan publicist, acting as special agent of the League, provided the settlement. Lithuania gets Memel. Traffic on the river, which serves the commerce of Germany, Poland and Russia, is to be free. The Lithuanians pretended to object. Poland did object. Russia barked...
...interesting to note that men who become agitated because of this accident had nothing at all to say about the hundreds of men whose lives have been lost by the nefarious traffic of the bootlegger. Nothing at all is said about the six or seven hundred men, according to latest reports, who in the city of Philadelphia have lost their lives through the work of the bootlegger. Nothing is said about that. Nothing is said about the 35 members of the enforcement division who have lost their lives seeking to enforce the law. Nothing at all is said about that...
...treaty of amity and friendship was signed between Italy and Albania. Ratifications of the Italo-Czech Treaty of Commerce and Navigation were exchanged, giving, inter alia, Czechoslovakia traffic facilities in the Italian Adriatic port of Trieste...
...suddenly changing his mind and swerving towards Kirkland Street instead of Cambridge Street, the driver of a truck loaded with crates of oranges held up traffic yesterday afternoon, by littering the street with the contents of one of the crates. Impatient motorists waited while the driver hurriedly collected the elusive fruit in a new wash boiler, but John Harvard, who watched the whole procedure, never winked an eyelash...
...sidings. When Henry Ford purchased the road on July 10, 1920, for $5,000,000, most critics thought he had been stuck rather badly at last. Indeed, during 1920, a deficit of $2,121,524 was run up. Since that time, however, Mr. Ford has routed much profitable traffic over it, its gross has climbed from $4,481,036 in 1920 to $10,417,412 last year. Operating costs for 1923 were reduced by $737,170 from the figure of the year before, and the cost of equipment maintenance also fell off $691,243 over the same period...