Word: traction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time he is an ambulance chasing shyster, aided by a dipsomaniac doctor (Frank Morgan) and a collapsible assistant named Floppy (Charles Butterworth) whose duty it is to fall down in front of moving vehicles without getting hurt. Everything goes well for Lawyer Stevens and his disreputable assistants until the traction company which is the chief victim of their frauds tries to retaliate by hiring a girl detective (Madge Evans). She falls in love with Stevens and he with her until he finds in her purse a check from the traction company's lawyer. To prevent her testifying against...
...Chicago the principal witness against the barge line was Frederick J. Lisman, white-haired Manhattan banker, traction promoter, author of the long-shelved Lisman Plan for a Chicago subway system. His glasses trembling indignantly on his thin nose Banker Lisman exclaimed...
...York has three subway systems. Though I. R. T. is the largest, it is controlled by smaller Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. Chairman of both is grinning, square-jawed Gerhard Melvin Dahl, onetime director of Cleveland's traction properties, later a trouble-shooting vice president of Chase National Bank. Together the two lines daily hurtle 5,000,000 New Yorkers up & down their rocky island, under and over the East River to Brooklyn and the Harlem River to The Bronx. The city's third system is municipally owned. Though it carries no passengers yet, its empty trains have rumbled...
...name to conjure with is Frank Julian Sprague's, yet last week the foremost electrical engineers of the land and scores of other celebrities gathered in Manhattan to do him honor on his 75th birthday. They called him the "father of modern electric traction" (both horizontal and vertical). Listening quizzically, he beamed behind his mustache, half closed his keen old eyes...
...Thomas Alva Edison. Forthwith his name was wiped from the rolling stock of 113 U. S. and foreign electric railways and from all items of construction, equipment and control, Edison's name being substituted. Later he sold his electric elevator company to Otis Elevator Co. Electric traction had many other fathers -including Siemens Co. in Germany, Stephen D. Field, Charles J. Van Depoele, Leo Daft-but Frank Julian Sprague first conceived the idea of a car moving freely between two contact planes, the terminals of a constant potential generating system...