Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high platform in the centre of the huge tent kitchens sat Supreme Culinary Chief Berchert giving orders into a microphone to thousands of German potato peelers, cooks and garbage workers. Each of seven enormous trucks held 34 big cooking pots or cauldrons heated by Diesel burners. Like cement from a cement mixer seething soups and stews flowed from these to be rushed on 400 light trucks to some 800,000 robust and hungry Germans, the rest being fed in Nürnberg homes and hotels. In the modest little Hotel Deutscher Hof, where one Adolf Hitler used to stay when...
...outcries of the Dairy Union and National Co-operative Milk Producers Federation, the New York dairyman had learned to deplore the babassu, its hefty nuts, the childlike Brazilians who skilfully crack them with axes, the oil pressed from their kernels which is not only an ideal fuel for Diesel engines but also a cheap base for oleomargarine...
...stimulate traffic on railroads the Interstate Commerce Commission (1 ordered the merging of two large New York railroads to eliminate needless competition, 2 lowered passenger rates to two cents a mile, 3 permitted railroad companies to buy bus lines in certain competing areas, 4 ordered Diesel engines installed on all transcontinental trains, 5 raised the speed limit on trains to 100 m.p.h...
Many a new feature gives the Hindenburg the right to the title of world's No. i dirigible. Prime aeronautical innovations are the first Diesel engines ever installed in an airship. Huge Daimler Benz V-8's made of a secret, lightweight alloy, they occupy four gondolas placed far back on the hull, leave a feathery wake of smoke as they shove the ship ahead at a maximum of 85 m.p.h. Only other projection through the smooth, silvery fabric of the Hindenburg's bag is the small control cabin near...
...first things new Chairman Harriman realized was that railroads are susceptible to smart merchandising. What is more, he did something about it. With other Western carriers in 1933, U. P. cut passenger fares as low as 1.7? a mile. Shortly a U. P. streamlined Diesel flyer smashed the transcontinental record by nearly 15 hr. in a blaze of publicity...