Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward L. Yordan, reserach associate in the Bureau of Street Traffic Research, gave the first lecture in a course on "Auto Driving Education and Training" last night for the Association School of the Young Men's Christian Association...
Last week President Roosevelt, en route east after a triumphal tour of the Northwest, was on hand to dedicate and open for traffic the last connecting link between the new north and south side outer drives. What Franklin Roosevelt, his head filled with international affairs, had to say about the span he said in 29 vague words: "My friends, I am glad to come again to Chicago and especially to have the opportunity of taking part in the dedication of this important project of civic betterment...
...links' main span across the river which cost $2,885,000 is the biggest bascule bridge in the world. Locally dubbed Centennial Bridge, the double-leaf structure is 331 ft. long, wide enough (108 ft.) for eight traffic lanes, rests its 18,400,000-Ib. on 32 caissons, sunk to bedrock, 102 ft. below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns...
...onto two of the ten longest (55-ft.) flatcars in the world. Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank. So the Lehigh Valley R.R. hauled it two miles to the west bank of the Hudson. All traffic on the railroad had to stop while this went...
...about to frame our question, asking for direction to one of the smaller but gayer places for sustenance, but before we could put all that into words, the policeman said, not at all unkindly, but with a definite note of reproof, "Straight ahead and turn left at the next traffic light for Harvard Square...