Word: mcclintock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fireman promptly jumped, escaped with minor bruises. Engineer Southerland. seeing he could not stop in time, signaled frantically to Engineer McClintock in the second locomotive, then pulled his throttle wide open, tore loose from his train and hurtled onto the culvert. The engine carried across the bridge even as it crumpled, safely reached solid tracks beyond. But the second locomotive and the whole train behind piled up in the ditch. Eleven of the wooden cars telescoped or were splintered to matchwood. There was no fire, but when rescuers from Chatsworth reached the spot they found 81 dead, 372 injured -Illinois...
...have completed the first year's training program in traffic research, Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the bureau, will stress today the need for skilled personnel as the solution for present highway traffic problems...
...present need throughout the country," Dr. McClintock declares, "is evidenced by the fact that practically every one of the graduates of this year's course has been offered a traffic position in some city, county, state or federal agency. These men will bring to their positions, in addition to their fine back-ground training, a highly specialized knowledge of all of the various phases of traffic control and administration...
Sirs: While reading your very interesting article on Miller McClintock and his efforts to reduce traffic accidents (TIME, Aug. 3), I was very much surprised to learn that the State of Indi ana required 20 hours of driving instruction in high schools as a prerequisite for application for an operator's permit. I was 17 years old when I took out my first permit in any State. That was in the spring of 1935 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Because I was under 1 8 it was necessary for my father to sign my application with me. While he went...
...remedy is Dr. McClintock's "limited way," a road following hydraulic principles by "delivering traffic as in a sealed conduit past all conflicting eddies." It has four elements: 1) A dividing strip down the road's centre ; 2) over and underpasses with cloverleaf detours at every intersection; 3) denial to abutting property of direct access to the highway; 4) acceleration and deceleration lanes for fast and slow traffic. All four forms of friction are largely cured by these four elements. But few roads exemplify them all. One example is the Worcester (Mass.) Turnpike. It used an abandoned trolley...