Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement with employes made in 1927, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad must place two men in the cab of every ordinary locomotive. For modern streamline engines there is no such contract. Hence, when the railroad acquired its fleet of four Diesel Zephyrs and three Diesel switch engines, it hired only one engineer for each. To substitute for the other man, it installed the "dead man's control"-a device which automatically halts the train if the engineer is forced by some emergency to take his hand from the throttle...
Auburn is bringing out a Diesel-engine car. Errett Lobban Cord's company has not had a good year since 1931 when its smart, swift models caught public fancy and 31,000 cars were sold. The company lost $3,600,000 in 1934 and $862,000 in the first six months of 1935. Nine-month 1935 sales of 4,324 cars were only about 10% ahead of the corresponding 1934 period...
...With bands blaring, salutes thundering from the minuscule Polish Navy, and a regiment of Poland's oversized, thoroughly potent Army stiff at attention, up the Pilsudski's mast climbed the flag of Poland. With her Diesel engines smoothly turning, the Dictator's namesake sailed forth on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, will provide U.S. citizens for the first time with a 100% modern liner on which they and their motor cars can sail direct to Poland in 87 days with Tourist as the top class ($168.50, exclusive of automobile...
Constantly striving for new efficiency, it has lately been scanning the fuel costs of its 6,000 buses and coaches, 850 of which use Diesel engines. Last week, on the basis of these tests, it announced it would buy no more gasoline-driven vehicles, would make all future contracts for oil-burning, diesel-engined equipment, which it found much less expensive to operate...
Caterpillar Tractor, now the No. 1 maker of Diesel engines in the U. S., has been a big beneficiary of the New Deal. Rising farm income and PWA expenditures, particularly for road building, boosted sales from $13,000,000 in the first half of 1934 to $18,700,000 this year. Profits for the half were up from...