Word: tractional
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...years, hapless straphangers have protested in vain. Chicago's traction troubles are rooted in corrupt politics and civic inertia. But last week Chicagoans were no less amazed than if they had suddenly seen the Wrigley Building afloat in Lake Michigan. The "traction problem" was apparently solved at last...
Hounded by State Street merchants, by the newspapers and by the electorate, Ed Kelly started all over again. This time he called in Phil Harrington, a crack city traction engineer, and asked him to help figure out a new plan. Harrington suggested the establishment of a Chicago Transit Authority which, with private capital, would buy up all the facilities and operate them as an independent agency...
...Traction. In Invercargill, New Zealand, a three-month-old baby had a difficult time nursing, did just fine with the help of a brand-new set of false teeth...
...Weeks' Wait. After lunch the President went back to his mother's one-and-a-half story frame house to find out what the doctors had to say. The diagnosis: "Complete fracture at the neck of the right femur." Traction should pull the bone into good position, they told him, and she might be out of bed in six weeks...
William Loss never expected to go into the movie business. But as a financial analyst with Manhattan's H. Hentz & Co. and a director of Citizens Traction Co., he often noticed another entry in the "Ci" columns: Cinecolor Corp., a company which processes color movie films. As the stock crept from 4? a share toward $1, he noticed Cinecolor more & more...