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...close to the French shore to get out to the floats. He is rich, wavy-haired Wing Commander Whitney Willard Straight, 28, son of the late Major Willard D. Straight, unorthodox Morgan banker who founded and funded the New Republic. Wing Commander Straight is a grandson of the late traction tycoon William C. Whitney, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
Tires 100% liquid-filled, to weigh down the structurally light rear end of tractors, provide better traction. The 15% solution of calcium chloride in water will not freeze above -20°, reduces bouncing and sidewall buckling, requires little care because water will not diffuse through an inner tube as air does. The liquid distributes pressure to all parts of the tire, unlike a solid filler. The tire was developed by Goodyear, is not yet on the market...
...tractor whose body can be raised between its wheels to pass over the high tops of growing corn, lowered so that its centre of gravity hugs the ground to give extra traction for plowing. Patent was granted to Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich...
When Grace Reidy, daughter of a Chicago traction executive, set off on her honeymoon in 1913, she had plenty of company. Two baseball teams went with her -the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants. Her father-in-law, Charles Albert ("The Old Roman") Comiskey, founder-owner of the White Sox, had arranged a world exhibition tour for the two teams. With them she visited eight countries, sat in the same grandstand with King George V, skedaddled home just ahead of World...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...