Word: tractional
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...alarm, the old building was full of heat and choking fumes. Flames crackled in stairwells and hallways even before the 20 newborn babies in the nursery awakened and began to cry, before St. Anthony's 30 aged men & women pensioners, its 72 other patients (some in splints and traction devices) began to struggle and call for help...
President Wilson of G.M., whose birthplace was flanked by the houses of two locomotive engineers, still ignores the fact that locomotives have had their weights concentrated over the driving wheels for over 100 years to assure traction, while his product has engine weight over the front wheels that are used for steering...
...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...