Word: tractional
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...glide through the turns, accelerating smoothly into the straightaways. But the roaring machines actually skid through each turn and make sickening little sideways hops towards the wall No one was injured in this year's race, but it's easy to see how Gordon Smylie's car lost traction in a turn during qualifying. Medics used four separate ambulances to pick up the pieces...
...given the wheelchair a contemporary look, Thomas E. Stephenson, 49, has revolutionized it. He has designed a chair that runs on belts like a tank, rather than the usual bicycle wheels. In contrast to wheels, which can be stopped by an obstruction like a garden hose, Stephenson's traction belts can negotiate a step, a curb or a grade. The design is still on the drawing boards...
...surgical collar, applied traction to the head, secured him to a spineboard, put sand bags by the head, and drove him at five miles per hour to Cambridge City Hospital, Chester Eskholm, owner of Professional Ambulance Service, said yesterday...
...sport's growth has been the improved quality of the skates themselves. Equipped with the quiet and smooth-rolling polyurethane wheels and precision ball bearings that were developed for skateboards, the new skates have better traction and more maneuverability than the noisy metal strap-on models that kids used to rattle around on. Says Harry Ball, 61, president and owner of the California-based Sure-Grip Skate Manufacturing Co., which this year will double its 1978 sales of over $5 million: "The new skate is no longer a toy but a piece of athletic equipment...
...cattle are fed on marginal resources and provide a vital in strument of production as traction animals," Harris said. "The cow is the mother of agriculture; the economy is not being held back, in fact Hinduism does more for the Indian economy than Protestantism does for Western ones," he added...