Word: traction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the greatest sum expended failed to obtain the election. In Illinois a somewhat different slant was given to the matter, since the expenses of the two opposing candidates came from the same source, that is, the so-called erection interests. In this way, whoever won the election, the traction interests, so to speak, came...
...wisely, impartial and aloof, but without much effect, as is the way with newspapers. Then occurred an episode unusual to modern journalism. Away from his piled-up desk in Union Street strode Editor Marshall Ballard of the New Orleans Item-Tribune. Like any able editor, he had followed the traction situation closely, knew it thoroughly. By telephone he had assembled the streetcar operators, the workers and the city's Commission Council. To them he now marched and with a few crisp words of common sense, a bit of gruff humor and some judicious ejaculations, soon brought concord...
...fabled namesake.* Standing more than 20 ft. high, with 85 ft. of wingspread and a 13-ft "gap" (between her two wings) she will be driven by her single Packard motor (an 825-h.p. V-type) at 110 m.p.h. Her propeller is enormous-a 15½-ft. traction blade, of such thrust that it is geared to one half the motor's speed turning only 1,100 revolutions per minute. (Smaller propellers must make 1,400 to 2,400 r.p.m.) Engineering skill has arranged that 50% of the Cyclops' final flying weight, 16,600 Ibs., shall be "useful...
...webbing their lines from Ohio through Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and into Kansas. The man is Clement Studebaker Jr., 55-year-old head of all the Studebaker interests, president of the Studebaker Brothers Trust, chairman of the North American Light & Power Co. which holds among other properties the Illinois Traction System (the longest electric raliway in the world)-manufacturer, financier, "clubman" (he belong to clubs in Boston, Detroit, Manhattan, Chicago). The corporations are: 1) the North American Light and Power Co. of Studebaker (value $200,000,000), 2) The North American Co. in which Studebaker and Senator McKinley of Illinois...
...Story* jolts off down the clay ruts of Lane County, Tennessee - stretches of crowded, stumbling action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money...