Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the U. S. import duty on foreign cars was cut to 10%, Germany's swanker cars bought with blocked marks have begun to tempt U. S. socialites who have been buying their big Diesel yachts in Germany for years. Thus in 1929 the highest-priced Mercedes chassis cost $15,500 in Manhattan, costs but $8,000 today...
...Caterpillar Tractor Co., which went into the red when Russia stopped buying tractors, was pulled out late in 1933 by emergency relief road building and the Diesel engine. Earnings for 1934: $3,651,000 against...
Respected Mr. Hayashi is president of the highly profitable and progressive Tokyowan Kisen Kaisha (Tokyo Bay Steamship Co.) which is proudly building the world's first airflow liner. This streamlined Diesel beauty will speed tourists and prospective suicides from Tokyo 59 miles to the Island of Oshima in 3½ hours. President Hayashi has provided all sorts of conveniences to get passengers from the landing dock up sulphur-belching Mihara-yama (Mount Mihara) to popular Suicide Point on the crater's brim. One may even ride a camel, one of the first three ever imported into Japan...
...Western's new train made railroad history by being the fastest train scheduled on the American Continent, fastest in all the world on a stretch over 200 mi. But what made The 400 really significant news was that it was neither lightweight nor streamlined, powered by neither a Diesel nor an electric engine. To all appearances a conventional, standard, all-steel, air-conditioned train, The 400 was hauled by a big, black, puffing steam locomotive...
Cinemaddicts will find it good melodrama as well as spectacular advertising, an up-to-date revival of a time-honored cinema formula, in which implements like Diesel engines, iron lungs and Boulder Dam are more exciting than the people...