Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the converging marchers reached the District of Columbia line. Superintendent Brown's men appeared as a reception committee. "We'll hang Herbert Hoover to a sour apple tree!" cried the Reds. The business-like police conducted them to a new street, not yet opened to traffic, between a high bank and a railroad yard. There, inside a police cordon, the marchers were told to make themselves at home in their trucks. There was a food shortage. It was cold. The marchers jeered the police, waved their Red banners. Across the city they could see their objective...
...Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane of energy who was a Western Air vice president until both he and Philbin withdrew last year. In charge of operations is Vice President Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, speed flyer...
...They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down Iron Horses can be turned out into the yards indefinitely. At present it is estimated that 10,000 of them are in need of re-shoeing...
...this time the genteel body of the Corporation, leaving a fine white trail of Union cigar ashes behind it, had reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...
...four essentials of a good seismographic station, according to Leet, are isolation from traffic, large size, deep burial, and surrounding rock. In each of these respects the Harvard station is probably unsurpassed by any of the 250 seismographic stations in the world, of which about 30 are on the North American continent. The station here is the only one in New England, the nearest being in Ottawa, Canada, and New York City. Burial in solid rock is relatively unique...