Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller attention to modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given way to the 4-to-6 seat coupé. General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear are promised from the overdrive, an automatic super-high gear that engages somewhere between...
Shoulders were promptly shrugged in Paris at the French Foreign Office. Its official spokesman said off the record that no such traffic exists. That it does exist no serious correspondent or commentator on the Far East has questioned for many months...
...Newark more than 20 families wrapped their faces in wet towels to save themselves from the gas raid, tied up traffic with their calls for gas masks, inhalators, ambulances, police rescue squads...
There is a prevalent view that Harvard men either drive a car well or die at the wheel; but even the best of them tire of the endless body squeeze and traffic jam that abound in the University streets...
...down to the most vital fundamentals. There must be a drastic reduction of the capital indebtedness, now ridiculously high because of over-optimism as well as unbelievable financial skull-duggery in the past. And there must be consolidation, with the subsequent elimination of the competitive scramble for traffic, into a few large companies, private or semi-public...