Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armed drivers had better restrict their activities to the sofa or the back seat if the safety of the roads is to be preserved, in the opinion of Dr. Harry R. de Silva. He has recently joined the staff to the University Bureau for Street Traffic Research and will direct a year's study on the cause and cure of accidents from the viewpoint of the individual driver...
...person who is operating a car cannot do two things at once, especially if one of them requires a great deal of his attention. It is often disastrous to carry on social intercourse in traffic, for as a general rule conversation is distracting, although on a long fatiguing drive some pleasant music can be relaxing. Radio ads have a terrible effect, on me at any rate...
...Florida boom, this will had only academic interest for the public. All of Florida East Coast's stock was held by the Flagler estate, the only publicly-owned securities being equipment trust certificates and a small first mortgage bond issue. But in order to handle boom traffic, the road had to embark upon a development program which included double-tracking the main line from Jacksonville to Miami. Consequently $45,000,000 of bonds were marketed through J. P. Morgan & Co. Peak year for the 812-mile "Flagler System" was 1926, when gross revenues were $29,400,000, of which...
Adding complications to the traditionally chaotic traffic situation on Harvard Square, wire stringers, perched atop construction trucks, have been laying the overhead foundations for a new trolley bus line. The buses will operate between the Square and Lechmere...
...Uniform traffic laws," "strict drivers' tests," and "compulsory auto insurance" ranked first, second, and third in favor in the statistics compiled by the New York Herald-Tribune and the college newspapers...