Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of these men, 24 of them, was explained by the Bureau of Traffic Research. The Bureau is conducting a survey of pedestrian traffic, counting everyone entering or leaving the Yard from 8 o'clock in the morning to 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon...
...count, the object of which is to be part of a large report on local traffic, has revealed, unofficially, that 25 women came out of the Yard one morning who were not reported as entering. The Bureau declines to advance any theory concerning this phenomenon...
This rough & ready background stood Harold Fowler in good stead in 1933 when he mixed into reform politics in New York City, helped elect Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. As reward he was given the job of First Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of straightening out New York's traffic snarl, reducing accidents. With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which...
...York cut traffic deaths 12.2% from the 1935 total of 954 to 838 in 1936. This was 17% less than the average total for the three years prior to 1936. Close second in the big-city group was Philadelphia. Chicago and San Francisco won honorable mention. Other traffic safety winners in their population groups: Kansas City (250,000 to 500,000); Omaha (100,000 to 250,000); Jackson, Mich. (50,000 to 100,000); West New York, N. J. (25,000 to 50,000); Wilmette...
...once to be seen, for the State was bending its car to the plaint of a Citizen. On this morning a big Irish Policeman, the grey of the ulster set off by his apple-red face, was the State, and he leaned over the side of his traffic box to talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a fragment...