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Word: traffics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Frontier Zone in the last fortnight, many dead broke and in desperate need, that to get money to succor them the State announced a "national solidarity" tax to be collected after October 1 by taking 15% of all salaries public and private, annuities and even pensions. Refugee traffic through Paris-as refugees moved from one part of France to another-was at the rate of over 5,000 people per day. Since people have to carry baggage even in wartime and many of the refugees are old men, women or children, husky porters who might have been sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: National Solidarity | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...TIME, Sept. 4, reports, Thomas Edmund Dewey "rigorously followed Rules 5, 6, 7 of How To Become President," but what about Owosso's traffic rules? See cut, "Dewey in Owosso," p. 13, which pictures Manhattan's Galahad of law and order apparently walking through a red light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Technically, but not actually, Mr. Dewey was indeed jaywalking. Cameramen had asked him to walk across Owosso's Main Street; Mr. Dewey obliged; Owosso citizens goggled and traffic just naturally stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Grizzly Dr. Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, publicity-wise president of the University of Maryland, failed to welcome students to the Maryland-Virginia Traffic Policemen's Accident Prevention School. Reason: his carwas disabled in an accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

During the school year the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants with typing jobs, entertainment positions, chore work, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur work, delivery work, and window washing following in order. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modeling for artists, or directing traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employment Office to Provide Part-Time Jobs for Students | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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