Word: traction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million in goods, the Dutch for $250 million. Rich merchants from India, with rubies as big as turkey hearts in their turbans, wandered about Washington, seeking bargains. But there was just too much to carry away in a hurry. And who wanted used WAC uniforms, old-fashioned traction splints and Elizabeth Arden black face cream for night attacks...
...group of amateur inventors in Washington, Pa. announced that they had finally found the right adhesive combination. Their new tire, which works by friction, seems to give better traction than snow tires based on a gripping action. The tire material, a mixture of rubber and abrasives, feels gritty, like fine sandpaper. Designed for year-round use, it works equally well on snow and ice in winter and on wet, slippery pavements in summer...
They had talked of many things, they said, but mostly about Chicago: slum clearance and traction reorganization, creation of a port authority and building of new airports, and also a convention to draft a new state constitution...
...socked at Mayor Ed Kelly, Governor Dwight Green, lawyers and bankers and traction interests, politicians, the plain citizenry ("suckers . . ."). General theme: Chicago is a shoddy place to live, because of cupidity, stupidity, boondoggling and apathy. All this was not so much an expose as a loud public belch, well illustrated. In stories signed by "William Tell," the public was invited to join in with its own complaints. Said the Herald-American: "Tell William . . . and let William Tell...
...Politicos kept in office for years merely by fighting him and an increase in the 5? fare. When Huntington died in 1927, the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, as trustees for the Huntington estate, became operators of the system, held on until the war boom in traction companies brought the chance to sell...