Word: tractional
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...dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests" and volunteered to defend the populace from their "schemes...
...Graham concern has been active in the manufacture of motor busses, and fleets of Graham busses are now operating in many parts of the world. In Detroit about 140 Graham busses act as feeders to the municipal traction system of the city...
Mayor Hylan, incensed at having been driven off the public radio by Court injunction: "The traction and underworld sympathizers, growing- panicky at the crumbling of their walls of misrepresentation before the broadsides of hard facts which I have given to the people in the last few days, made crafty moves yesterday to muzzle essential information from reaching the people. L delivered an address over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession...
...leading features in general business during the past year has been the great activity of bus manufacturers. All over the country busses are entering into competition with local railway trains and traction companies. Even with-in the limits of moderate-sized cities, there is a strong tendency for independent or traction-owned bus companies to enter the municipal transportation field. The outlook is as reassuring to bus manufacturers as it is dark and gloomy to the old-fashioned electric traction companies...
Ever since the auto bus began to be developed as a serious competitor of railroad and traction companies, there has been a vivid interest in Wall Street in Mack Trucks, Inc. Earnings on the stock have been sensational, and prices for it have soared on the anticipation that soon a big "melon" would be split for the special benefit of the shareholders...