Word: tractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boheme with winsome Queena Mario and pompous little Gigli, Salome, Traviata, Cavalleria, Hansel und Gretel, Manon, Tannhduser, Mignon, Girl of the Golden West, Lucia ? the Los Angeles repertoire and reactions were much the same as in San Francisco. Boxofficially Soprano Maria Jeritza was greatest at traction. Gigli got the galleries. Critics were most eager to hear Clare Clairbert, new Belgian coloratura...
...total in miles flown (TIME, Dec. 30). Now Mr. Coburn is called in to tune up the manufacturing aspect of the business, to align the personnel throughout. That is the work he specializes in - "Management Engineering." He belongs to the firm of Sanderson & Porter, whose clients include Federal Light & Traction Co., Na tional Distillers Products Corp., American Sumatra Tobacco Corp., American Water Works & Electric Co. Mr. Coburn's special ability has been enlisted before now by the directorates of R. Hoe & Co. (printing presses), Savage Arms Corp., International Gear Co. During the War he ran the Navy...
...first in the barber shop at Albany's old Delavan House. At 19 he started a tea store, soon opened branches. His first utility interest was acquiring stock in Albany Gas Light Co. A genius for consolidation, in comparatively short time he acquired control of Manhattan utility and traction companies. In 1887 he reorganized Manhattan's elevated railway and subway systems and held until his death a majority of the stock of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., now Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Co. He died in 1913 of indigestion, in London, while traveling with Restaurateur Louis Sherry. He left...
Arthur Newell Talbot '81, professor-emeritus of municipal sanitary engineering, able traction engineer (formula for laying railway curves, moving train stresses on tracks), pioneer in the development of reinforced concrete, the design of municipal sewage plants...
...Halsey, Stuart & Co., calling it "a mere gesture to force the company into receivership. . . ." Nor did he show any signs of meek capitulation to a plan suggested by Elisha Walker's Bancamerica-Blair &- Co. and Clarence H. Dillon. A lawyer who has worsted Charles Evans Hughes (Manhattan traction case), who wears orchids with impunity, he may well seem soothing to his harassed client...