Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, muscular, 20-year-old Son Franklin entered Harvard in 1933 with one unpunished arrest for speeding already chalked against him. He got off with a dressing down from a traffic officer at Windsor Locks, Conn, that autumn, an other at Union, Conn, the following spring. On an icy street in suburban Boston last March his automobile knocked down 60-year-old Mrs. Daniel P. O'Leary. Authorities excused him for the accident, fined him $20 for using out-of-state license plates beyond the 30-day limit. But Mrs. O'Leary, having suffered many...
When the airplane picture had hummed over the wires last week, the loudspeaker conversations were resumed with A. P.'s Picture Editor Norris A. Huse in New York acting as interlocutor and traffic director...
...transmission. A flip of the ringer selects the desired shift. Then, when the clutch is depressed, a mechanism on the transmission, actuated by the manifold vacuum, shifts the gears. If an optional automatic clutch is used, the shift occurs when the foot is raised from the accelerator. Thus in traffic the "electric hand" may be set at second speed before a shift is necessary, the shift being made later by depressing the clutch pedal or releasing the accelerator...
Cause. Last week the American Railway Association reported a slight rise in railroad accidents in 1934, attributed it to the increase in rail traffic over 1933. In the first eight months of 1934 nine passengers, 57 employes were killed. For last week's highly extraordinary series of rail mishaps Association officials had two explanations: 1) coincidence; 2) the fallibility...
Died. Frank H. Hannigan, 57, head of Cunard White Star's ecclesiastical department; after a brief illness; in Caldwell, N. J. He encouraged transatlantic steamship traffic by promoting yearly pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain of St. Patrick in Ireland...