Word: tractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
...fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed by a commission of grammarians and field in the archives of the department...
...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...
...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...