Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greyhound service in Boston and Philadelphia stood still. Elsewhere, in widely varying degrees of regularity, bus schedules were maintained, though there was a sharp drop in traffic. Busses still rolling entered the terminals well splashed with ripe tomatoes. Tires were slashed, windows stoned. In Washington, eleven pickets were arrested for forcing a bus to the curb and beating the driver. Five men were arrested in Springfield, Ill. for the same tactics, while four others were picked up for investigation as alleged "strongarm guards" employed by the company...
...history of U. S. labor. They asked $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President Alexander Fell Whitney and 19 other Brothers on the ground that the strike was called, not to improve wages and working conditions of bus drivers, but in behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed quite obvious to Greyhound-at least for propaganda purposes-that since railroading trainmen far outnumbered the bus-driving trainmen, the Brotherhood called the strike "with a view to restore patronage...
...culture is ... the art of loafing," and names the three great American vices as "efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand. "If I contradict myself here...
...Wichita, Kansas, Police Department now uses one of these clinics developed by the Traffic Bureau. Chief of Police O. W. Wilson, who last year taught a course here in Police Traffic Administration, reports that every Wichita driver who has an accident is made to take the tests...
...second year, the Traffic Bureau set up and operated a driving clinic at the National Auto Show in New York this fall. The staff of 25 men who operated the tests estimate that over 15,000 people went through the clinic...