Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commerce clause empowered Congress to regulate intrastate business when it "affected" interstate affairs had by now become classic. But this time the classic argument was being put by the New Deal's high legal command. Counsel Richberg's gist: "If 1,000 automobiles are obstructing traffic, it isn't necessary to prove conspiracy in order to produce order by putting traffic in lanes. That is the regimentation which we have heard so much about. If it were not for regimentation, reckless drivers would make traffic impossible. It is regimentation which brings order out of chaos and protects...
...system: Whenever a Zagreb motorist is caught breaking a traffic rule by a Zagreb policeman, the officer then & there deflates all four of the motorist's tires...
...More air traffic starts and stops in Anchorage than any place in the world...
Possibly as a space filler, possibly as an outburst of immature student rhetoric there appeared in yesterday's (April 24) CRIMSON the perennial complaint about traffic in Harvard Square. It is high time that this subject be dropped. It makes for senseless, complaining small talk of a third rate variety. This hand-flapping oh-dear, oh-dear attitude of regarding a congested corner is not only obsolete and impractical, but even sissy. By compulsory exercise regulations every undergraduate has become somewhat of an athlete. We are a community of youth. The vigour of a well-played game may be experienced...
...Newark, N. J., for having been hit by an automobile when the traffic lights changed as she was crossing a street, Mrs. Michael May sued the City of Newark for . $5,000 for operating traffic lights "in a reckless, haphazard and improper manner...