Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said recognition, as a protection for the approximate 2,000 Swiss citizens residing in Rebel territory, he was allowed to open an office in Berne to conduct his business. But he managed to obtain a tag with the letters "C.D." from the Department of Interieur, the branch of vehicles & traffic of the canton of Berne, for his car, distinguishing it from other people's cars. ("C.D." means Corps Diplomatique...
...each year it takes to run Northwestern's Traffic School, the automobile industry supplies $25,000; the Kemper Foundation (insurance) $10,000; Northwestern University $5,000 and campus quarters; the balance comes from the International Association of Chiefs of Police whose safety division is also supported by the motor industry. Kreml, still an active lieutenant on the Evanston force, is permanently detailed on professor's salary to the school. Long abandoned is the motorcycle; Lieutenant Kreml drives a Terraplane to school through the streets he helped make safe...
...methods of checking accidents. So loyally did his city stand behind him that, in spite of an increase in automobiles, Evanston's motor death rate in nine years dropped from 21.8 per 100,000 to 2.9. In 1932 Kreml organized what later became Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute in which police officers from all parts of the U. S. enroll in two courses, one general course of two weeks, the other a full university term from October to June. The short course deals with accident investigation, reports and records, traffic legislation, pedestrian control, and drunken-driver control...
Almost since the first scheduled airliner roared off U. S. runways and especially since traffic lanes were established in the sky, civilian pilots have contested the right of transport companies and airports to restrict their flying. This week, however, a set of re-codified and revised Civil Air Regulations, signed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, takes effect...
...Gulf, look like a widow's back yard. In the booming middle twenties it paid dividends and plowed earnings back into the plant. Then came Depression and a combination of new natural gas and oil pipe lines, improved highways and two Government-subsidized barge lines made traffic pickings so slim in the Mississippi Valley that the M. & O. derailed into receivership. Railroader Norris was receiver until the Southern called him back to Washington...