Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Količina 133A.L. Hummel, 1927 |
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Stran 220 - For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of cities and incorporated villages is hereby empowered to regulate and restrict the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence or other purposes.
Stran 119 - Lalxir for Labor Standards; second, the Director of the Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce; third, the Administrator of Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Department of Health, Education and Welfare; fourth, the Director of the Bureau of Mines: a<nd fifth, the Director of the National Science Foundation.
Stran 46 - Where residence streets carry a large amount of through traffic they are, in effect, thoroughfares and should be lighted as such. However, in every city there is a large percentage...
Stran 81 - Every unauthorized obstruction of a highway to the annoyance of the king's subjects is a nuisance. The king's highway is not to be used as a stable yard.
Stran 37 - Special equipment, construction, and maintenance costs are practically constant, depending little upon the size of the lamps used ; electrical energy and lamp renewals, the outstanding variables, contribute but a minor proportion of the total annual operating cost. This fact, coupled with the urgent need for better illumination because of traffic congestion and more liberal use of the streets at night, is responsible for the distinct trend toward the use of larger lamps in street lighting. Modern...
Stran 142 - AT his own store door, Merchant A benefits only by to traffic. Everywhere else in his trade territory, facilities for through traffic in his direction have a direct bearing on his prosperity. But in this same region are located Merchants B to Z, each of whom is interested in attracting a maximum of traffic to his store door, but feels little concern for facilitating traffic to the door of Merchant A. The conflict of these warring interests lies at the root of the problem of the standing vehicle....
Stran 256 - The facts show both strong cyclical and seasonal movements in immigration and emigration and abundant evidence that when immigration is not restricted the character of the cyclical variations, at least, is closely similar to the cyclical variations in employment opportunity in the United States. A fairly close similarity is also found in the seasonal movements.
Stran 146 - ... highway opposite such standing vehicle, shall be left for free passage of other vehicles thereon, nor unless a clear view of such vehicle may be obtained from a distance of two hundred (200) feet in each direction upon such highway.
Stran 222 - ... load. land area per employee varied from 400 square feet to nearly 20,000, with a general average of 4,000 square feet. In Elizabeth, NJ, a careful estimate (excluding all vacant meadow areas owned by plants but not used) gave 1,500 square feet of land per worker. At the Bush Terminal this figure falls to 80. Were the buildings but a single story in height (as was largely the case in Newark) instead of the five stories actually existing in large part at the Bush Terminal, the Newark minimum of...
Stran 46 - ... that children playing in the street will readily be seen by an automobile driver when going at a fair rate of speed, and that turns, dead ends, and street intersections will be definitely marked. Any...