Word: traction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tractor whose body can be raised between its wheels to pass over the high tops of growing corn, lowered so that its centre of gravity hugs the ground to give extra traction for plowing. Patent was granted to Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich...
When Grace Reidy, daughter of a Chicago traction executive, set off on her honeymoon in 1913, she had plenty of company. Two baseball teams went with her -the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants. Her father-in-law, Charles Albert ("The Old Roman") Comiskey, founder-owner of the White Sox, had arranged a world exhibition tour for the two teams. With them she visited eight countries, sat in the same grandstand with King George V, skedaddled home just ahead of World...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...
...investment house which took neither alternative was Chicago's H. M. Byllesby & Co. Since 1910, when it organized Standard Gas & Electric Co., Byllesby has kept control of Standard, a utility empire with 105 subsidiaries selling gas, electric and traction service to 6,200,000 customers from Pittsburgh to San Diego. Byllesby's control of Standard was challenged in 1929 when an ambitious young financier, Victor Emanuel of Manhattan, began buying into the company. In that fight for control Standard stock went from $60 to $245 a share and Emanuel's syndicate (which later became United States Electric...