Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things, be responsible for the physical inspection of all U. S. vessels in his district, the inspection and examination of all life-saving equipment, licensed officers, able seamen and lifeboat men. On his nights ashore he loves to sit for hours at a window smoking his pipe and watching traffic. His wife, whom he met when she was a guest at the captain's table, does not permit him to drive in it. It makes him too nervous...
Surface cars will be eliminated between Harvard Square and North Cambridge, and the road will be cleared of the numerous traffic islands. In the past, reckless motorists have damaged 117 of these traffic islands, often injuring themselves. The abolition of these islands will be one considerable advantage of the proposed change...
...McAdie states, "that a loss to the Port of London during the fog of December 5 and 6, 1930, was as high as $5,000,000 a day. While this is an unusually long fog spell, we are safe in giving an estimate of twenty each year when traffic is seriously impeded if not suspended. The financial loss is considerable...
While heavy fog could not be completely cleared away by this method, tunnels through the fog large enough to permit traffic could be "drilled...
...average run of British motor accidents-about 150 per week-provided Major Hore-Belisha with a terrific TRAFFIC CRISIS. Dashing about to inspect the terrain on which no citizen's life could be considered safe, the major was photographed on his motorcycle as a sort of Mussolini of Motoring. He decreed barber-striped safety islands and chevron-striped crossing lanes. In order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns...