Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandson the country, old (77), shaggy-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, canny president of Delaware & Hudson, reported Iowa corn and wheat "beautiful," U. S. businessmen "anti-Administration," U. S. railroads burdened with 90,000 miles of track which ought to be torn up. Said Railroader Loree, who thinks all passenger traffic a nuisance: "I do not feel discouraged about the railroad business. . . . The short-haul business has never paid us. Why should we fuss about...
Some 5,000 persons, one by one, climbed into the driver's seat, took hold of the steering wheel, put right foot on the accelerator, left foot on the floorboards, looked at the green traffic light in the pillar before them. The scene was not a highway but the psychological laboratory of Massachusetts State College at Amherst, or the 1935 Boston automobile show, or the 1934 Eastern States Exposition at Springfield, Mass. When the person being tested put his foot on the accelerator, the cam of a motor selector switch was set revolving, turning the green light to amber...
Last week a ten-year legislative drive to put interstate bus & truck traffic under Federal control came to a successful conclusion when Congress finally passed and sent to President Roosevelt its first Motor Carrier Act. Sponsored by Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman, this new law, effective Oct. 1, provides for drastic motor carrier regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission on Rates, Routes, Safety, Wages, Hours of Labor, Financial Responsibility and the issuance of securities over...
...Investigation by borrowing a heterogeneous collection of sleuths and bank examiners from other departments. Within considerable limitations, the Bureau was charged with the detection and apprehension of violators of Federal statutes. In 1910 these duties were increased by the passage of the Mann Act to break up the interstate traffic in women. Seven years later the War brought the tasks of espionage and counterespionage. In 1919 under the Dyer Act, Department of Justice agents began to chase across State lines automobile thieves (most of whom turned out to be joyriding youngsters). But neither in morale nor efficiency did the Bureau...
...from the presidency of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1929 has never been satisfactorily explained. Certainly that able railroad man, son of a onetime president of Illinois Central, had done nothing to impair C. & O.'s profits, which were excellent, or its West Virginia coal traffic, which was expanding. Best guess for his removal seemed to be that Mr. Harahan, who had gone to C. & O. before the Van Sweringens bought control of it in 1922, was not as close to the Bachelor Brothers of railroading as John Joseph Bernet, their crack operating head...