Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there's this to be remembered; nations will have arms in this scrabbled epoch, L. of N. or no. The arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results...
...road like Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, Atchison, Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian and Bangor & Aroostook earned not only fixed charges but dividends besides, but the great majority were deep in the red. A wage increase of 5% will take effect in April, topping two preceding raises of 2½% since last July. Traffic is not expanding. And while Jesse Jones might assure the carriers, as he did last week, that his RFC would continue to lend on acceptable security, there is a bottom to even the best road's strong box. Furthermore, Mr. Jones sometimes depresses investors, as he did last week...
...Approved a definitely dignified, able and idealistic panel of seven Britons appointed last week by His Majesty's Government as a Royal Commission to investigate the munitions traffic...
...Else, that is kept shut in the attic. Julian plays the piano in the orchestra of a third-rate musical show, whose pretty leading lady is his fiancee. They are too poor to get married, are too idealistic to do anything else. When his mother is killed in a traffic accident, Julian finds himself saddled with her fearful secret. He leaves the show, makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life. But the tempo rapidly gets too fast for him; the surrealist dream in which he finds himself becomes...
Mount Auburn Street, and all intersecting streets will be shut off from traffic for blocks around, and officers will patrol the immediate neighborhood. In the vacant house opposite the Club a watch will be stationed, and detectives will be posted in windows overlooking the scene...