Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most expensive sports event in the world?the four-out-of-seven races for the America's Cup. The owner of the British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races and Endeavour...
Motors. A more conclusive example of profitless prosperity was furnished by General Motors' quarterly report, published last week. GM sold 130,000 more autos than in 1933's second quarter and a correspondingly larger number of refrigerators, Diesel engines, spark plugs, vacuum cleaners. Translated into dollars, its three-month sales jumped to $303,000,000?an increase of no less than $100,000,000. Yet wages and the cost of materials jumped even faster. So GM did its additional $100,000,000 of business without a nickel's profit. Indeed its three-month profit of $40,000,000 was actually...
...flying hours from 200 to 300 per Army pilot per year. ¶ Additional provision for training in night, instrument, radio beam and bad weather flying. ¶ A minimum of 2,320 airplanes for Army peacetime requirements. Present number: 1.500.* ¶ Development of a 1,000-h.p. liquid-cooled Diesel engine. ¶ Immediate organization of an independent "General Headquarters Air Force." composed of all tactical combat units of the Air Corps under a separate commander. ¶ An annual aircraft procurement program for Army & Navy with purchases by three methods: design competition, negotiated contract and competitive bidding. ¶ As a final recommendation...
Early one morning in Denver last week, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., Manufacturer Edward Gowan Budd (no kin), many a Burlington and Budd technician, 20 newshawks and one burro boarded Burlington's silvery new high-speed Diesel-powered train. A full third of the way across the continent in Chicago that day, A Century of Progress was opening for its second year. Clackety-clack-streamlined, shovel-nosed Zephyr slid out of the Denver yards at 6.05 a. m. While passengers settled themselves in its three articulated compartments. Zephyr picked up speed. For a while...
...schedule between Germany and Brazil that it is no longer news. Front-page news will be the launching this year of the LZ-129, world's largest dirigible (6,720,000 cu. ft.), now nearly complete at Friedrichshafen, Germany. Awaiting only the installation of its four big diesel engines and the equipping of navigating rooms and living quarters, LZ-129 will carry on where the Graf leaves off, warming the heart of futuristic President Vargas...