Word: congested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports cannot be differentiated from their loom-woven relatives. The finer fabrics, requiring more rows of shorter stitches to the inch, are still a problem. Toot-Light. Changing the signals automatically at regular time intervals at the intersection of a main highway and a less heavily traveled road would congest the highway for the sake of a possibly empty side-road. Charles Adler, Baltimore signal engineer, has invented a device which interrupts the heavy traffic only when necessary. A three-colored signal light (red, amber, green) stands at the corner showing green to the highway, red to the road. Close...
Senator Aldrich represented Rhode Island in the Senate from 1881 to 1911, and was the first chairman of the National Monetary Commission, appointed by Congest in 1908 to study the banking situation throughout the world with a view to revising American banking methods. The Federal Reserve system was a direct outgrowth of the commission's findings, although the proposal of reserve banks met with hostility when first proposed, and was not immediately adopted...
...midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly because this canal has been a very expensive white elephant, partly because it would profit greatly from an increased volume...