Word: traction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital with his arm braced in a traction apparatus, a staggering total of $126,900 was offered ($100,000 of it by the U.A.W.) for the arrest and conviction of the gunman. Last week every cop, private dick, stool pigeori and neighborhood snoop in Detroit was working overtime, and half the population seemed to have turned amateur detective. But at week's end the assassin was still at large...
Passion for Power. Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of the trilogy, is a Chicago traction magnate and stock manipulator, an obnoxious example of greed, he is socially snubbed and politically hobbled during a reform movement. The Stoic depicts his attempts to muscle in on the underground transportation system of London -a move which is thwarted by his death. Cowperwood's career, as Dreiser editorializes on it, is an indictment of both the social environment which permits unlicensed power, and the compulsions (what he calls "chemisms") which drive men to seek power...
...Canada's largest foreign corporation is the Brazilian Traction Light & Power Co., Ltd. which supplies light, transportation, telephones & gas to 20 million Brazilians...
...years, hapless straphangers have protested in vain. Chicago's traction troubles are rooted in corrupt politics and civic inertia. But last week Chicagoans were no less amazed than if they had suddenly seen the Wrigley Building afloat in Lake Michigan. The "traction problem" was apparently solved at last...
Hounded by State Street merchants, by the newspapers and by the electorate, Ed Kelly started all over again. This time he called in Phil Harrington, a crack city traction engineer, and asked him to help figure out a new plan. Harrington suggested the establishment of a Chicago Transit Authority which, with private capital, would buy up all the facilities and operate them as an independent agency...