Word: tractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, "Holy Roller" Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up. Fred Conrad went home to "save" his father. The father protested. So 200-lb. Fred Conrad went on a fast. He would, he cried, fast for 40 days and nights "like Jesus did." He would save every soul in New Hampshire...
...rolled glass makers-Highland Glass Co. at Washington, Pa., and the Western Glass Co. at Streator, Ill., Shirley, Ind., and Fullerton, Calif.-as the Highland-Western Glass Co., with $5,000,000 capital. The men who control both the United Light and Power Co. and the American Light and Traction Co., were indifferent as to which company would buy technical control of the other and create a half billion dollar utility merger. Chiefly because of a complicated financial set up United Light and Power, last week, became the buyer. The Koppers (Mellon Associates) and Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland pushed...
Died. Joseph Kittridge Choate, 74, consulting engineer, president of the Morris County Traction Co., for 15 years vice president of the J. G. White Management Corp., nephew of the late famed Joseph H. Choate; of bronchial pneumonia; in San Francisco...
Light, power, gas and traction companies operating in 98 New York cities were affected by a business deal last week. But the people in those cities felt no throb in the even running of their utilities...
...view of this revelation it may fairly be asked, how much of the uninformed and unreliable propaganda last summer against the Mexican religious laws was inspired by those higher up. Such methods are more worthy of the Balkans than of a government which has supposedly stood for peaceful are traction of international disputes. If this government really has a case, which seems doubtful in view of the preceding facts, let it be taken to the World Court or the Hague Tribunal for settlement...