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...relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines and oil interests. He managed Pacific Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co., Southern Pacific subsidiaries, which later were sold to Standard Oil of California and Tidewater Oil, respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Revived Rails | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Holders of New Orleans traction bonds went into Federal Court, asked for an injunction against the trolley union to save their property from further destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Orleans, et al. | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...begins, and so far has ended, with the forces by which Earth clutches that which is its own. To escape the pull of gravity, an earthborn body would have to take off at terrific speed. Outside the earthly atmosphere, interstellar gases are so rare that they would afford no traction for an airplane's propellor, no buoyance for wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves moonwards in rockets. Herr Oberth, bearing in mind the desirability of returning and landing on the earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mooning | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...field limousine for shooting on the moors is a Crossley, each rear wheel fitted with two tires to give double traction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Motors | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Herald and Traveler. I. P. & P. is primarily a power combine nowadays, affiliated through such men as it placed in charge of the Herald and Traveler with potent finance (Old Colony Trust Co., First National Bank, Harris Forbes & Co.), with potent industry (United Shoe Machinery Corp.), with potent traction interests (New York, New Haven & Hartford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power and the Press | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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