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About eight months ago Brigadier General Jay Johnson Morrow, Governor of the Canal Zone, predicted that traffic through the Panama Canal would soon quadruple. His prediction seems likely to come true even sooner than he probably expected, for, in announced figures on Canal traffic for the fiscal year recently closed, he found that the rate of travel is now double that of a year ago, and tolls for the next year, at the present rate, will exceed $24,000,000, of which about $18,000,000 is profit above over-head expense...
Nothing was said about the remaining traffic which is obliged to travel at a snail's pace, owing to the impenetrable density...
...flat. Benedict Arnold was the father of his country and first president of the United States. The American navy will be of ships carrying one big gun in time of war and cargoes of Fords in time of peace. The American army will be used in suppressing the liquor traffic and the teaching of evolution in Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and Germany...
Human Wreckage is a movie of the drug traffic. The producers would have us believe that the traffic is national; in fact, that the nation is moving down a one-way street to a Potters' Field for dope fiends...
...regulating traffic towards Epsom Downs, where the English Derby was run last week, a number of airplanes were employed, watching for breakdowns, diverting traffic to other routes, keeping in touch with headquarters by wireless...