Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pavilion, N. Y., one of Penguin's, inner gear cases broke. In Troy, Dr. Poulter had to stop to pick up some instruments. While Penguin labored along the hairpin turns and precipitous slopes of the Berkshires, it caused the greatest traffic jam New England had ever honked...
...United States can be controlled within the limits of our available and accruing dollar balances. For some time, if at all, it should be unnecessary to call on [Britain's] reservoir of American securities which have been mobilized [estimated at $1,100,000,000], for the traffic in them can be only one-way traffic...
...lights gleaming over the marquee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art one night last week spelt the name PICASSO. Outside, the traffic jam would have done credit to a prize fight. Inside, 4,000 people crowded for a preview of the most comprehensive show ever assembled of work by the world's most famed living artist...
...slap down at least $3.85 on the fine they must have some indication that they will get their money's worth in return. That same amount of money could easily take the average spectator to a better football game so why does he persist in getting in a big traffic jam on Larz Anderson bridge...
...staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says: "Run along to bed, little father." When the Count makes love to her while a traffic cop is tooting his whistle, grimly scientific Ninotchka asks: "What is the interval between his whistles?" Her disintegration begins when she discards her semimilitary outfit, buys the most becoming hat she can find, which looks like a horse's nose bag inverted...