Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handle the crowds which will approach the Stadium on foot this afternoon, the Traffic and Police Departments of Boston and Cambridge have closed many of the streets around the Square to automobiles...
...rail mileage is being operated at a loss, Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman few months ago recommended a plan which, he claimed, would save the roads $100,000,000 annually. Key of the plan was that all rail merchandise services be pooled into two competing agencies of comparable traffic and financial strength, to be owned by two big groups of railroads. Mr. Eastman's plan left the railroads cold. Even less enthusiasm greeted suggestions for pooling of U. S. freight cars. To this the industry objected hotly with cries of: "Impractical! Socialistic...
Father Kenny said that so long as the Cristeros (religious opposition) are without arms "the situation is hopeless." Nevertheless all the Cristeros have not lost hope. In Mexico City 40,000 Catholics blocked traffic for hours in "mute protest" against persecution of their Archbishop. In Magdalena, after local officials seized a 150-year-old statue of San Francisco Xavier, patron of the district, they gathered angrily in such numbers that troops were called to watch them...
...Boston strike, although it has not received the extensive comment that attended the strike of the dock workers on the Pacific coast, has tied up shipping traffic in Boston Harbor...
Eugene Luther Vidal, Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce, who urged a five-year expansion program for U. S. airlines to foreign countries, under Government subsidy; also a passenger subsidy to domestic airlines as an incentive to further passenger traffic...