Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Determined to put an end to this traffic, the Japanese last week sent seven warships to the port and after a brief shelling landed sailors and marines. In twelve hours the city was occupied. In the harbor, however, lay the U. S. destroyer Pillsbury and the British destroyer Thanet. On shore were 40 U. S. citizens, mostly missionaries, and 80 Britons. During the occupation of the city Japanese naval authorities peremptorily demanded that British and U. S. warships leave at short notice...
David Low's first published cartoon was printed in a New Zealand paper in 1902, when he was eleven years old. It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic. Ever since that time he has pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David...
News editorials are written in breezy, colloquial style, as Joe Patterson would talk to a friend in the Bowery. The News is usually annoyed about something. Typical annoyances: traffic regulations, other newspapers ("WE'RE ANNOYED WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES"), the Japanese. Almost every Monday since 1934 the News has run an editorial on the theme of "Two Ships for One." When he feels like it Joe Patterson plugs some pet idea of his own. Most recent and most screwy idea: sex determination...
...Traffic over the International Bridge between the French and Russian Concessions was stopped. Foreign ships were halted and forced to dock at Japanese wharves; only after four days of the blockade were two British ships finally allowed to come up the Hai River to the Concession docks. While most other Occidentals were comparatively unaffected by the blockade, the 1,500 British civilians of the Concession were stopped, questioned, stripped, manhandled. After a few such instances they kept to the Concession. For a few hours one day British machine-gunners and Japanese soldiers in tanks glowered at each other over sandbag...
Business within the Concession stopped dead. Traffic was reduced to almost nothing. Chinese junks, which ply up & down the river bringing vegetables and fruit to the Concessions, feared to come near. Two Chinese vegetable vendors who did were shot. The Concession still had large stores of flour and rice, but perishables were almost gone. Milk had disappeared by week's end; the ice supply was low, and it was 100° in the shade. Even in the French Concession, where vegetables were still obtainable, prices tripled...