Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world responded. In 1933, 161 deep-sea ships cleared Albany. Last year 255 ships dropped down the river to the sea, 625 barges plied up & down the deepened and renovated canal. Total volume of Albany's 1935 harbor traffic: 500,000 tons, chiefly grain, oil, wood pulp, canned goods. About 90% of the world's ships can use Albany's harbor. Latest figures of the U. S. Shipping Board list Albany as eleventh in foreign imports, 21st in total foreign trade...
...likes to recall that some of the U. S. officers for whom he held services considered him "the toughest-looking member of the unit." Holding pastorates in New Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic cop on the motorcycle squad. Because he was also offered the chance to drive a hook & ladder truck, Churchman Wilkinson was mildly sorry that Boston's firemen did not join the strike. He is now in his 40's, looks younger. He has not met President Roosevelt, was selected...
...When an hour had passed, Mr. Whitelock had no more than established his thesis: that Holy Writ contains prophecies of modern social, moral, financial, political, ethical and economic conditions. When two hours had passed, his patient congregation was still listening to quotations dealing with such subjects as heavy motor traffic (They shall justle one against another in the broad ways...
...through classes the dream is in my mind. Afterwards to wander aimlessly . . . Shepard Hall. The sign on the door reads, "Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research; Driver Test Clinic." Some impulse moves me inside. A professor beside a machine that seems a cross between an airplane cockpit and the driver's seat of an automobile. "You have come for a test?" he asks. "I don't know," I reply. Without more encouragement he ushers me to the seat and bids me grasp the wheel. "When you see the red light, apply the brakes as fast...
...other things she is sure they will like. So far she has learned only two words of English, 'Be Careful!,' and she addresses them to her chauffeur every time she goes out. She and the Sultan thought at first that it must be fright at your terrible traffic which made English girls so pale...