Word: traction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsidiary corporation (name unannounced) to consolidate under one sub-president its transport activities, which constitute 30% of all scheduled air transportation in the land. To head the sub-merger Aviation Corp. chose an expert traffic man, James Franklin Hamilton, president of New York State Railways, Schenectady Railway and United Traction...
...Ford and Citroen have made marvelous machines at very reasonable prices,'' said a Ministry of Agriculture statistician, "but until they invent a traction engine that can be eaten when it is past its usefulness, our good peasants will stick to their horses...
...relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines and oil interests. He managed Pacific Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co., Southern Pacific subsidiaries, which later were sold to Standard Oil of California and Tidewater Oil, respectively...
Holders of New Orleans traction bonds went into Federal Court, asked for an injunction against the trolley union to save their property from further destruction...
...begins, and so far has ended, with the forces by which Earth clutches that which is its own. To escape the pull of gravity, an earthborn body would have to take off at terrific speed. Outside the earthly atmosphere, interstellar gases are so rare that they would afford no traction for an airplane's propellor, no buoyance for wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves moonwards in rockets. Herr Oberth, bearing in mind the desirability of returning and landing on the earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former...