Word: traction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession of delegations and petitions from Chicago had been pouring in on him, trying to persuade him, making pretty copy about him for the newspapers. "I am open-minded about it," he temporized. "After all, my first venture in political life as a youth was fighting the Chicago traction interests."* Some professors at the University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed...
Biggest surprises revealed last week were Allied's possession of 10.4% of the voting strength of American Light & Traction Co. and big holdings of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Allied gave no reason for any of these investments, but others noted that Allied buys much coke from Sloss-Shemeld, once sold much gas to American Light & Traction, was a heavy creditor of Virginia-Carolina Chemical when it went through reorganization, has large sales of chemicals to the two big glass makers...
...secret in peacetime but none is likely to be revealed at a public parade witnessed by foreign military attachés and foreign correspondents. Displayed for the first time in public, however, were nine heavy tanks of new design, from 18 to 25 tons in weight, varying widely in traction and armament. Still lighter than the 50-ton tanks used by Russians and French in Leftist Spain, heavier than the Italian and German affairs of about ten tons used in Rightist Spain, these new experimental tanks were apparently designed to meet the military criticism that at present Germany...
...knocked at SEC's door -Engineers Public Service Co., which registered all $369,000,000 of its assets, and Cities Service Co., which asked for exemption for itself but registered the $428,000,000 assets of its two utility subsidiaries, Cities Service Power & Light Co. and Federal Light & Traction Co. This brought the total of utility assets registered under the act to approximately $6,800,000,000 or about 44% of the industry...
...Lawyer Brandeis forced a Boston traction company to accept a 20-year franchise on the Boston subway which it hoped to hold for 50 years. From 1907 to 1913, as counsel for the people, he opposed the New Haven monopoly of New England transportation. As unpaid counsel for a policy holders' committee he learned enough about the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1905 to persuade the Massachusetts Legislature to make provisions for cheap insurance issued through savings banks. The Brandeis insurance plan, started in one bank, now includes 24 and more than 100 agencies in other savings banks, trust...