Word: traction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average increase over the same period last year, promptly gave the lie to bearish indices. Among these earnings were Union Oil of California up from $2,400,000 to $3,650,000; Continental Baking from $1,020,236 to $1,201,992 (a 13 weeks' report); American Light & Traction from $5,368,893 to $5,919,580; Westinghouse Air Brake from $1,153,091 to $1,846,833; Electric Bond & Share from $2,431,460 to $2.571,601; American Chicle from $831.281 to $1,022,665; Libbey-Owens-Ford up from...
...pooled the eleven companies, made them profitable. His genius for utilities took him into street railways, gained him the 'presidency of Bristol Traction Co. Eleven years ago his prestige and ability carried him into Connecticut's biggest business of all, insurance, when he was made a director of Aetna Life. His directorates included Aetna, National Fire, Automobile Insurance Co., Aetna Casualty & Indemnity and Hartford-Connecti-cut Trust...
...high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse. All four wheels are powered. In water or on marsh, traction is provided by sections of inflated hose strapped around the tires just as normal motorists strap on winter chains. In case of puncture, the tire is kept inflated by a compressor which feeds air constantly to the tube...
...victim must be carried by hand, four first-aiders "should form a team-one at the victim's head, another at his feet, the others at each hip. While those at the hips lift and carry, the others gently pull and carry. The traction at head and feet holds the vertebrae apart and prevents them from grinding against the injured cord...
Last autumn New Haven flopped into a reorganization. With court approval the trustees of the road promptly canceled the traction lease made in 1906. The gas and electric leases remained in force. But the most Connecticut Railway & Lighting could expect from its streetcar lines is an annual $118,000, instead of the old figure of more than $1,000,000. That leaves the company $155,000 short of meeting even the annual sinking fund and interest requirements on its $8,989,000 funded debt...