Word: traction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz got a $25 desk pad, and a $25 wastebasket. And presently Mr. Wilson, although no member of the Bar, was allowed by a friendly judge personally to argue a big traction suit in which he was opposed by some of Philadelphia's best corporation lawyers...
...years Reporter Howey was city editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, founded by Charles T. Yerkes as a political houseorgan for that tycoon's traction schemes. When the paper had done its job, Yerkes presented it to his editor, George Wheeler Hinman, with an electric light plant in the Loop for good measure to pay the paper's bills. Into office went Mayor Fred A. Busse, good friend of the Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman...
...Traction. From 1904 to 1913 Washington's Capital Traction Co. (street railways) lost each & every personal injury suit in which the claimant was represented by Frank J. Hogan. In 1913 Capital Traction Co. hired Frank J. Hogan as its general counsel, has kept him ever since. Two years later the whole nation heard about him. Accused by the Government of trading in securities in violation of the National Banking Act was Washington's famed old Riggs National Bank, where every President from Buchanan to Wilson kept his personal funds. To secure an injunction against government interference the bank...
...easy," declared President Stout, "is to put a lot of weight in the back end. Four hundred pounds of cement in the back seat helps a lot, but if we can put the engine back there and save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction and much more room available in the body of the vehicle. . . . This gives a much better art possibility for appearance than the old-type car. . . . Sweeping lines can be run clear from the front to the rear-no projections, no bumps, smooth contour, and the sleekness of line...
...Chicago and Manhattan newspapers, plugged The 400 over the radio, announced a forthcoming $1,000 prize contest. To make The 400 possible it had spent $100,000, a year of research and preparation. The roadbed had been reballasted, curves "super-elevated." Boiler pressure on the locomotive was stepped up, traction increased, oil substituted for coal to eliminate fuel stops. The 400 hit 91 on its maiden trip last week, clipped off 81 mi. in 67 min., zipped through a ceremonial tape at 85, snorted into St. Paul 2 hr. 52 min. under the old schedule...